On this week’s 'Mormon Land' podcast we talk about the recent events that have taken place at BYU and what that means for the school’s reputation.
, a Duke graduate and faculty member in social work at Salt Lake Community College, discussed how these developments have affected the Provo school’s reputation, and what they may portend for the future of the flagship university of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.• The sports piece contributes to that really negative reputation that Utah has as having the most or one of the most racist fan bases. It does us no favors.
Patrick, You attended and taught at Notre Dame, the most prominent Catholic university in the country. Did it have anything like BYU’s ecclesiastical endorsement for faculty or students?No, it’s certainly not the same. Notre Dame is among a handful of religious institutions of higher learning that really want to be elite academic schools. So how do you balance that with your religious identity? At Notre Dame, it plays out in different ways.
Given what’s happened in the past couple of weeks and in the past year at BYU and other church institutions, do you see them heading in a new direction?• I don’t know if it’s a new direction so much as it is a louder direction. There have been undercurrents of this for as long as I can remember as a young woman in my own journey in the church. But [now] it is being solidified in policy and practice. What I think we’re seeing is this asserting of dominance.
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