Wilkinson. Wilkinson, upon assuming the presidency of BYU in the 1950s, was outraged that some BYU professors paid only a partial tithing, and some paid none at all.

(I digress here to admit that I too, was surprised that there were/are tithing shortfalls among BYU professors. I would have that the Lord 10 percent was something that one wouldn’t have to worry about at the Lord’s University. But it was, and had been for most of the 20th Century. Wilkinson was determined use an individual’s tithing history to help determine raises,
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At one point, Wilkinson told LDS Church President David O. McKay that 27 percent of BYU faculty were either part tithing payers or paid no tithing at all. Wilkinson’s efforts, though, to get detailed reports of faculty tithing records descended into J. Edgar Hoover spoof when he encountered opposition from local bishoprics and stake presidencies. They understood better than Wilkinson the ethical aspects of the Law of Tithing, that taught that it was a private matter between a church member and his ecclesiastical leader. Eventually, Wilkinson was able to get the names of partial and non tithe payers,
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Wilkinson also received considerable opposition from faculty at BYU,
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One faculty member who found himself in Wilkinson’s aim was Kent Fielding, a BYU instructor who had admitted he no longer had testimony of the Gospel. When asked how he been approved to teach at BYU,
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Wilkinson wrote, I had told Brother Lee about this at the time, and Brother Lee, whose main weakness as far as I can see is that he cannot accept criticism, had interpreted it as serious criticism on my part of him Lee,
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The policy that Wilkinson eventually crafted and tried to follow was that partial tithe payers would have their raises decreased by the amount they owed on a full tithing. For example, if Wilkinson determined that a professor had robbed the Lord of $600 in his tithing payments, a $1,000 raise for said professor would be decreased to $400. Professors not paying any tithing would be in danger of losing their employment at BYU. Wilkinson insisted more than once that no one was to pay tithing,
, while also insisting that any BYU professor who wanted to teach there would pay his tithing.

The policy prompted panicky attempts by some BYU faculty to try to turn back the clock. As Bergera reports, Wilkinson noted in his writings that one professor insisted in his interview that he had paid a full tithing.

When Wilkinson had the matter looked at,
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Bergera estimates that over eight years, at least dozen (probably more) teachers were dismissed or resigned due to church problems that had their genesis with Wilkinson’s tithing crackdown. Senate campaign. When he returned, he discovered a church leadership more resistant to the tactics he had advocated during his first term at BYU. As Bergera notes, BYU policy strictly prohibits the release of faculty tithing information to university administrators. Maybe it’s because I’m a in the baptismal font member, but before I read Bergera’s piece, I just assumed BYU workers were tithe payers the LDS Church Presiding Bishopric didn’t have to worry about.

This post also ran in Currents, the Standard Examiner digital only section on politics and culture. For more information on Currents, call 801 625 4400.

BYU is a wholly owned and operated subsidiary of the LDS Church and as such is of course, as Doug notes, free to impose whatever qualifications it wishes to on its employees, academic or otherwise. I note only two things about this latest interesting article in Doug continuing series:

1. If it becomes thought among academics across the land that promotion at BYU depends not upon scholarly work, but upon meeting a non academic religious requirement [like tithing], the academic reputation of the school and its faculty cannot help but suffer.

2. As for this: Lee had asked only two questions: "Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?; and,
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Once they meet those conditions though, the University should not really probe further. And as far as I know (which is not all that much) it doesn

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