Temple Recommend required to work at BYU
Is this a good idea?
Doesn't it encourage people to fudge, and by placing external incentives on it, also demean the recommend itself? One more reason I would never work for BYU. |
I can understand both sides of the argument. I tend to believe it is a bad idea, for the reasons you mentioned.
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I don't think it's a good idea and is at odds with the purpose of a university. You also tend to get a homogeneous faculty, again, at odds with the purpose of a university. My sister in law just started a graduate program at the zoo and out of curiosity, i checked out the department faculty pages. Every single faculty member did their undergraduate work there, and it was about 50/50 on going away to do graduate work before returning as faculty. Amusing. One more reason I never went and would never encourage my daughter to go. |
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That would be the extreme example of complete absence of Mormonism. There are of course plenty of schools with a strong Mormon contingent. But as a parent, I would be aware of the issue and try to guide my child to a school with a certain minimum, or when schools are otherwise equal, to the school with a stronger Mormon infrastructure. |
One other quick point. You don't go to BYU because of the faculty. You go because of the students.
BYU gets good students, better than its faculty. |
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I'm don't think this is a good idea when universally applied. But I have no problem with having a temple recommend requirement for administration. They are de facto employees of the church and are engaged in non-academic activity. |
I may be wrong, but I believe that hiring of non LDS faculty has been severely curtailed.
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Can't you get the same results from match.com, for a lot less? |
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