Correction

*CORRECTION posted 1/22/10: At one point in the story it is suggested that a former chair of the Bible/Theology department, James Hoffmeier, resigned his chair when President Litfin overturned his department’s vote to offer a position to a Duke theologian. Hoffmeier writes that in fact he only threatened to resign over this but was convinced not to do so by a trustee. A few months later, however, he did resign over Provost Jones “summarily firing” the then Dean of the Graduate School. Hoffmeier soon left Wheaton altogether because “it would not allow me the kind of flexibility in my teaching schedule that would permit me to direct an archaeological excavation in Egypt after obtaining outside finding for the project. The blame for this too lies with Jones, not Litfin.”