Illinois university overturns professor’s anti-Christian stance

Officials at Southern Illinois University have apparently compelled a social work professor to grade a Christian student’s final research paper after she had refused to grade it for four months.

For a research project assigned in her social work class, SIU graduate student Christine Mize had asked to include a faith-based recovery program in the project. Dr. Laura Dreuth-Zeman, her professor, told Mize that if she included such a section in her paper she would lower Mize’s grade.

Mize reluctantly submitted the paper without the faith-based section, but attached an informational letter explaining that religious speech is protected on college campuses. Dreuth-Zeman responded by refusing to grade Mize’s paper at all. The professor’s action left Mize with a grade designation of “Incomplete” for the class, a class which she must complete to earn her degree.

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