(CNN) A dean at Rider University in New Jersey is stepping down from her post after the school decided to drop Chick-fil-A from a list of possible campus additions. The school's reasoning, says Dean Cynthia Newman, is an affront to her Christian beliefs.

Rider announced in November that it would no longer consider the fast food chain as a new campus restaurant option "based on the company's record widely perceived to be in opposition to the LGBTQ+ community."

The restaurant chain had previously been one of the choices included in a survey sent to students about potential restaurant vendors.

Rider is a private university offering undergraduate and graduate programs, with a student body of more than 5,000.

Administrators wrote in a campus-wide email that the move was an effort to be more inclusive and that the chain's "corporate values have not sufficiently progressed enough to align with those of Rider."

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