Many U.S. academics demean the role of religion in public life, the chancellor of the University of Texas system said. In a Sunday evening discussion among college presidents at a Hillel gathering in Washington, Mark Yudof also said students had complained to him that their professors sometimes don’t take religion seriously, according to Washington Jewish Week.
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