No. 21 Men’s Golf Wraps Up Ben Hogan Collegiate Invitational  Pepperdine University Athletics

The university banished the teacher for 15 months

No. 21 Men’s Golf Wraps Up Ben Hogan Collegiate Invitational  Pepperdine University Athletics

Pepperdine promises professors freedom to teach controversial ideas and vigorously debate colleagues. Christina Littlefield is testing that promise.

Pepperdine University professor Christina Littlefield won’t be teaching this fall. Not because Pepperdine says she is unqualified to teach. Instead, the university put Littlefield on paid leave and banished her from campus for 15 months for “unprofessional” speech and making students “uncomfortable.” Her crime? Teaching about depictions of Jesus as black in a religious history class and criticizing colleagues who supported censoring an art exhibition as following the “fascist playbook” on art censorship. That’s a serious problem at a university that extols professors’ academic freedom to teach controversial material and vigorously debate their colleagues. Pepperdine should live up to its promises and reinstate Littlefield. Exile Littlefield is a 13-year Pepperdine professor who earned her Ph.D. in divinity from the University of Cambridge and researches church history and the intersection of religion, politics, media, and culture. Yet on May 6, Seaver College Dean Lee B. Kats issued Littlefield a “Final Written Notice” accusing her of falling “significantly below the professional standards expected of a faculty member.” The disciplinary notice alleges that Littlefield used “unprofessional and derogatory names toward colleagues in public settings” and engaged in classroom conduct that “made students feel uncomfortable.” Pepperdine faulted Littlefield for criticizing her colleagues as following...

FORT WORTH, Texas - Pepperdine men's golf is through the opening two rounds at the Ben Hogen Collegiate Invitational, presented by Charles Schwab.   The Waves

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No. 13 Women’s Golf Finishes Third in Historic Week at Golfweek Red Sky Classic  Pepperdine University Athletics

No. 13 Women’s Golf Finishes Third in Historic Week at Golfweek Red Sky Classic  Pepperdine University Athletics

Following a visit to Pepperdine University’s "Waves of Flags" 9/11 memorial, Former Vice President Kamala Harris and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff visited County of Los Angeles Fire Department (LACoFD)...

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UNC Women's Tennis continued main draw play at the ITA All-American Championships on Thursday. In singles, No. 95 Nicole Khirin picked up the Tar Heels' only win for the day, earning another ranked win after topping No. 16 Anastasiia Grechkina from Pepperdine in straight sets. With the win, Khirin advances to the round of 16 in Main Draw.

Thousands of college students gathered at Pepperdine University in Southern California this week for an evening of worship, prayer, and preaching that organizers say resulted in hundreds making decisi...