Bucks County Community College: Ideological Loyalty Oath for Professors

Case Materials

• "Loyalty Oath Overturned at a Pennsylvania College," FIRE Press Release, March 12, 2001: Six months after the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education helped slay a manifestly unconstitutional loyalty oath at Monterey Peninsula College in California, FIRE returned to overturn a similar threat to authentic liberty and privacy at Bucks County Community College (BCCC) in Newtown, Pennsylvania. The threat had been called to FIRE's attention by a professor at the college. Alan Charles Kors, President of FIRE, commented: "Individual liberty, for all, is the deepest American aspiration. It is the great cause of our time. We are privileged to have been at the side of its intrepid ally at BCCC."
• "Letter to Bucks County Community College," February 22, 2001

Media Coverage

• "Foundation Targets School's Applications," Oshrat Carmiel, Philadelphia Inquirer, February 23, 2001
• "Diversity Question on College's Job Application Amounts to 'Loyalty Oath' Group Contends," Robin Wilson, The Chronicle of Higher Education, February 21, 2001
• "Diversity Programs and Diverse Ideas," Bucks County Courier Times, February 13, 2001
• "Professor Challenges Diversity Hiring Question," Gwen Shrift, Bucks County Courier Times, February 12, 2001