A University of Northern Iowa professor says she was told to alter a request for a sabbatical because the wording was too political.
Rebecca Burkhardt, a music professor who wants to write a musical about former Texas Gov. Ann Richards, included in her project description a famous Richards quote that former President George H.W. Bush “was born with a silver foot in his mouth.”
Burkhardt says an Iowa Board of Regents official asked that she and her research partner remove the quote before their description and dozens of others were made public last week with a regents meeting agenda.
… The researchers said they also were asked to strike: “Ann Richards was big, and so are musicals.”…