By Fox23.com News Staff
NORMAN, Okla. — A graduate teaching assistant at the University of Oklahoma has been removed from teaching duties.
This decision comes after a student enrolled in an online psychology course previously accused the teaching assistant of religious discrimination for her use of the Bible in an essay.
The University said the student used the two available processes by filing both a grade appeal and a formal claim of “illegal religious discrimination.”
The investigation into the claim of religious discrimination has been concluded and OU said it “does not release findings from such investigations.
However, during the investigation, the university’s Provost and Dean reviewed the evidence and interviewed the teaching assistant. They concluded that the teaching assistant was “arbitrary in the grading of this specific paper” and “will no longer have instructional duties at the University.”
“The University of Oklahoma believes strongly in both its faculty’s rights to teach with academic freedom and integrity and its students’ right to receive an education that is free from a lecturer’s impermissible evaluative standards. We are committed to teaching students how to think, not what to think. The University will continue to review best practices to ensure that its instructors have the comprehensive training necessary to objectively assess their students’ work without limiting their ability to teach, inspire, and elevate our next generation,” said the University of Oklahoma in a statement shared to its social media.
