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Texas Tech limits how race and gender can be taught, faculty could be disciplined for noncompliance
Texas Tech System mandates prior approval of race, sex, gender identity, and sexual orientation course content, affecting 64,000 students across five campuses, per Chancellor Creighton's memo.
- On Monday, Brandon Creighton, Texas Tech University System Chancellor, imposed restrictions on faculty discussing race, sex, gender identity and sexual orientation and warned noncompliance may lead to disciplinary action.
- Brandon Creighton framed the steps as implementing Senate Bill 37, which he authored before leaving the Texas Senate; the law, approved earlier this year, requires regents to review required undergraduate classes.
- The memo includes a flowchart requiring instructors to assess relevance, then submit contested materials to department chair, dean, provost, and Board of Regents; faculty members may not promote beliefs of racial or sex superiority.
- Faculty groups and professors reported delaying lessons, stripping transgender terms, and self-censoring after guidance; Andrew Martin, president of the Texas Tech chapter of the AAUP, called the memo Monday `a profound disappointment` that violates the First Amendment and harms transgender students.
- This move positions Texas Tech to be more regental than peers, as its rules add a formal approval process ending with the Board of Regents and the first SB 37 core-curriculum review is due in 2027.
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Race and sexuality course content is also caught up in the university system’s expansive new content review policies. Months after beginning to enforce unwritten policies about how faculty members can and cannot teach topics related to gender, Texas Tech University system officials released a memo Monday that officially put those policies—and more—in writing.
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Texas Tech limits how race and gender can be taught, faculty could be disciplined for noncompliance
Texas Tech University System Chancellor Brandon Creighton on Monday imposed restrictions on how faculty discuss race, sex, gender identity and sexual orientation in classrooms and introduced a new course content approval process, underlining that instructors could face discipline for not complying.
·United States
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