Graduate instructor who gave failing grade to Samantha Fulnecky no longer teaching at OU

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OU concludes Bible-based essay investigation, graduate instructor to no longer have instructional duties

Dec 22, 2025 Updated 7 hrs ago • 5 min to read


Bizzell Memorial Library on Oct. 7.
Matthew Moore/OU Daily

By Audrey McClour
Reporter

A graduate instructor who was placed on administrative leave after failing a Bible-based essay in an online psychology course will no longer have instructional duties at OU, according to a statement released by the university Monday.

“Based on an examination of the graduate teaching assistant’s prior grading standards and patterns, as well as the graduate teaching assistant’s own statements related to this matter, it was determined that the graduate teaching assistant was arbitrary in the grading of this specific paper,” the statement reads. “The graduate teaching assistant will no longer have instructional duties at the University.”

OU recently made national headlines after psychology junior Samantha Fulnecky publicly claimed religious discrimination after she received a failing grade for a Bible-based essay in a psychology course. The course’s graduate instructor, Mel Curth, was placed on administrative leave Nov. 30, according to a previous statement released by the university.

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