If no one would have expected an accurate rendering of quotes why would anyone have quoted Our Lord as saying something when they knew no one would believe them? As well as this the Church teaches that the Scriptures where we find the words of Jesus are divinely inspired and also that the Church alone interprets them. If we claim to be Catholics we must accept this.
We have plenty of avante-garde, Catholic scholars interpreting Scripture in a variety of heterodox ways without us turning to Protestants and agnostics.
I know nothing about that university but to hire an agnostic to teach Christian Scripture seems a pretty dumb decision to me.