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The news came in a letter from Daniel Graham, chair of the philosophy department at BYU. BYU instructors and employees contract themselves to not criticize the church as a condition of their employment. BYU Professor fired Nielsen was subsequently released from his church callings. Jeffrey Nielsen is a former teaching fellow at ''. Professor Jeffrey Nielsen was educated at Weber State University and Boston College. At Boston College, he was a Teaching Fellow where he taught courses in logic and critical thinking, the history and philosophy of art and science as well as in ethics and epistemology. He has also taught in the philosophy department at Brigham Young University, where he taught courses in the ethics of leadership, reasoning and writing, as well as in the history and development of science. His teaching focuses on issues in ethics, moral decision-making, and democracy. Nielsen's most recent initiative has been to found the nonprofit Democracy House Project . The Democracy House Project is an educational initiative using his peer-based model to teach political literacy. Professor Nielsen is currently teaching Philosophy at Westminster College, Salt Lake City, UT; and Utah Valley State College, Orem, UT. REFERENCES NEWS ARTICLES
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