He said he had taught at the college for 14 years without signing the oath.

Inside Higher Ed reports.

Novelist Quits Teaching Job Over Loyalty Oath

James Sallis, a novelist who may be the most famous faculty member at Phoenix College, has for many years taught as an adjunct at the community college.

But he told Phoenix reporters Tuesday that he’s quitting — rather than sign a state loyalty oath the college has not required all adjuncts in the past to sign, even though it is college policy to do do. (This paragraph, and one two paragraphs down, have been updated based on new information from the college.)

“I never imagined that things like this were still around. It horrified me,” Sallis told 12News in Phoenix. He said he had taught at the college for 14 years without signing the oath.

Officials at the college told the station that it had no choice under state law but to require Sallis to sign. The officials said that, in preparation for an accreditation review, the college reached out to 800 adjunct instructors — Sallis among them — and found that some of them had never signed the loyalty oath, and that they have been told they must do so to keep their jobs.