Thomas More Law Center

TMLC announced today that it filed a formal complaint with the President of the Middle States Commission on Higher Education (Commission) challenging the accreditation of the National Defense University (NDU).  The Commission, which accredited NDU as a degree granting university, responded that it has begun a “preliminary review” of TMLC’s complaint.

Matt_Dooley.jpgTMLC’s complaint provides overwhelming evidence that several NDU and Department of Defense (DoD) policies relating to academic freedom were violated when Lieutenant Colonel (LTC) Matthew Dooley was removed from his teaching post as a result of demands by Muslim organizations that all training materials offensive to Islam be purged and instructors using the materials disciplined.

TMLC also asked the Commission to conduct its own confidential on-site interviews of NDU faculty members to determine the extent to which academic freedom has been diminished and what measures should be taken to insure the future integrity of NDU as a university.

LTC Dooley was an instructor at the NDU, and one of the faculty members assigned to run the elective course entitled, Perspectives on Islam and Islamic Radicalism.  Click here to read TMLC’s 7-page complaint.

Richard Thompson, TMLC President and Chief Counsel, observed: “The actions taken against LTC Dooley are astonishing.  NDU’s own policies recognize that academic freedom is essential to the integrity of the university classroom setting as well as U.S. national interests.  In fact, the Department of Defense had specifically directed the National Defense University to establish a climate of academic freedom within the university, with the directed purpose to foster lively, classroom debate in the examination of national security issues.  Contrary to these established policies, NDU and DoD have subsequently gone on to violate their own rules in handling this incident concerning the Islamic Radicalism elective.”

General Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, publicly excoriated LTC Dooley and characterized his course on Islamic Radicalism as “offensive to Muslims”, and “against our values.”  General Dempsey’s evaluation of LTC Dooley was in stark contrast to the glowing reports from those who witnessed LTC Dooley’s abilities as an instructor first hand, namely, his students and superiors at NDU.   Clearly, the inaccurate prejudicial narrative that was permitted to persist against LTC Dooley clashes with the positive narrative, voiced again and again, by the students who were actually in Dooley’s classroom and by his immediate superiors at NDU who witnessed his teaching methods.

In light of LTC Dooley’s public ridicule by General Dempsey, his termination as an instructor and his career-ending Officer Evaluation Report (OER), other NDU faculty members have voiced their own concerns about academic freedom at NDU. 

NDU policy defines academic freedom as the “freedom to pursue and express ideas, opinions, and issues germane to the University’s stated mission, free of limitations, restraints, or coercion by the University or external environment.  Academic freedom is the hallmark of an academic institution.”

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  • To Hell with the Muslims.

  • Keep listening to the muslim enemy. Watch them destroy our Republic from within. They've done a bangup job so far. These people must go, they are a cancer on our country. What makes it worse , is that our government is actually helping them.

  • It's the muslims that are against our values.

    Pretty easy to explain when you look at it that Gen. Martin Dempsey (Chairman of the Joint Chiefs) is just another obama ass kisser.

    They all gotta go.  Period.

    This administration.  The mulisms.  The ass kissers.

    And, at this point, I don't care how it happens.

    Think about that.

  • wonder  how many lives this action  against LTC Dooley will cost  on the field?T'anks to DebraJoe Beatty--and brenda herbert and the rest

  •   Look what the Muslims have done to the rest of the World. LTC Dooley was getting the truth out of what can happen if America doesn't stop what is happening in the rest of the World. American's better wake up to what Our Government is trying to do to us through the Idiot who call himself our POTUS. He is a Muslim and a Traitor and our other Politicians and our Military leaders have their heads up his azz and are affraid of letting the truth be known.There will be only one way this will end and Americans better be prepared for the worse as there is no other way this is going.

  • When you have a Muslim president this is to be expected, Bammys hate for America, our values, our military and everything we have been about for over 200 years is clear...he belongs in a country somewhere else...

    • Praise God!  obama needs to be shipped out and not let back in!

  • I'm sorry, but I'm getting a little upset over this "political correct" BS. Who gives a rats butt less about what the Muslim world things about us -- except for all those butt kissers on the LEFT!!!

  • why are we tiptoeing around Muslims? if it's a true fact than it should be stated and our soldiers should know what it's all about . why are the Muslims reading the manuscripts? when did we decide to let muslims tell us what we can put in training manuals. Praise God for this soldier! his Officer Evaluation Report should be changed. it's time we citizens start digging into what the military has up it's sleeve! GOD BLESS AMERICA!

  • Well, the Muslim Brotherhood has infiltrated our government, with its Grand Imam in the White House, so what else would you expect?

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