The Washington Times reports that Patrick Henry College — the “homeschool” university — has gotten past last year’s split over academic freedom and is “ready to start fresh.”
Erik Root, formerly of the Locke Foundation’s Center for Local Innovation and now research director for the N.C. Family Policy Council, was identified as the instigator of what became a one-third faculty revolt at Patrick Henry.
10:30 a.m. Update, clarification from Erik: “13 of 22 professors left last year (more than 50 percent, apparently including part-timers). The issue was bigger than me and I was not the instigator. I was the occasion why many faculty stood up and said enough. There were problems LONG before the debacle over me.”
The Washington Post in May also gave an account of the controversy at Patrick Henry.
