Called on a Mission to be a professor?

[_cafe crema]

Over on NOM two people have mentioned that people they know were called to serve a mission as a professor at BUY, that strikes me as a little hard to believe. Is that the case, are there professors at BYU who are serving a year long mission for the church, and if it's true are there equivalent positions filled by volunteers at other universities?

[_Harold Lee]

Well that's it. Finances are catching up with the church.

Laying off church employees and replacing them with missionaries is happening more and more- but is the standard of curriculum so low they're substituting career professors and senior lecturers with volunteers?

Just as amazing is the BYU pathway program where institute teachers, senior missionaries, and STUDENTS of the course themselves (I have a friend taking a class that taught one day for it when the senior missionary teaching it cancelled) can attend a class at a local institute and get BYU-I transferable credit. How that system got accredited is mind-boggling. If you've ever attended Institute before you know how much getting your associates degree through it (or at least attaining junior status) is mocking the educational system.

I officially hate BYU. It's religious indoctrination with a touch of education.

[_zeezrom]

Maybe they can also call missionaries to do landscaping on campus.