While this news is extremely disappointing to all of us, our students can continue their academic careers uninterrupted thanks to an avalanche of support from our colleagues in higher education,

if anything, we'll accept fewer students.

If you lost an entire year, it would be very difficult to retain students and to retain faculty, ... They, because of the risk associated, would feel like they should transfer somewhere else.

It's helping students learn what's required to be successful in human services careers.

The faculty tries very hard not to assign books that the students won't need or find useful in their careers. It really hits people in the technical fields, like nursing students. But the texts that they buy become part of their permanent reference library.

When they say 'teach the controversy' — their ringing phrase — they want us to pretend to students that scientists are arguing whether evolution took place. This argument is not taking place.