This is a Christian College. Is it not possible that a Christian math professor would be relieved to teach in a Christian environment?
There are many, many highly qualified math professors teaching in community colleges all across the country, despite the fact that those institutions have no "degree programs".
It is not necessary to offer degree programs in order to provide quality classes in a variety of disciplines.
Wait, don't I live in a free society? Since when was it illegal for whomever, including the Christian Right, to be hired for positions? To hold whatever religious beliefs as they wish, provided they are not committing acts of violence? Not to mention the right of private educational institutions to set their curriculum. Or does Voice of Freedom not follow the inspiration behind its own name?
The writers state, "if you think that Bin Laden and his thugs are bad news, just look at the list of right-wing zealots already in America's government." So the Christian Right is WORSE than guys who killed 3,000 folks on 9/11 (to name just one of their crimes)? I don't even agree with much of PHC's views, but to compare PHC and the Christian Right to madrasas or bin Ladin is ridiculous. PHC isn't saying "kill the infidels," having women clad head-to-toe in burqas while denying them an education, or advocating terrorism. The Left's ridiculous moral equivalency comparisons astound me.
When liberals say they want religion out of politics, I remind them of the civil rights movement (religion in politics). That always shuts them up because it exposes their true bias: it's not religion per se that these writers dislike, but conservativism.
Duh. The best math teacher I ever had was at a junior college, which worked at the level at which he was teaching (entry level calculus). Still, that obsolete approach doesn't work when it comes to attracting top students and it didn't teach new approaches to the computational methods that are rapidly rendering the continuous mathematics he so ably taught obsolete. Clearly, Patrick Henry isn't using their facility with imparting an understanding of mathematics as part of their marketing program, which is too bad.
It is not necessary to offer degree programs in order to provide quality classes in a variety of disciplines.
It's not necessary only if you assume that the discipline doesn't change much over time. Unfortunately, I was burned on that one when it came to finite difference equations and won't let that happen to my kids. There are many areas where the academy is way behind industry, and both experimental design (which can be applied to a whole array of disciplines) and finite mathematics are but two of them.
Frankly, I had thought about whether to include math in the list of lab courses and was waiting for a smartass rejoinder such as your first post. After some consideration of how much my math education had missed when it came to preparing me for real world problems, I decided to proffer the bait.
You took it.