Faculty Groups Sue Texas Tech to Block Restrictions on Race, Gender Teachings
The suit says two memos require review of course material and have already forced faculty to certify compliance for summer and fall classes.
- On Wednesday, faculty organizations sued the Texas Tech University System and Chancellor Brandon Creighton, alleging new curriculum rules restricting discussions on race, gender, and sexual orientation violate constitutional rights.
- Chancellor Creighton, a former Republican state senator, issued two directives over the past eight months requiring audits of course materials that touch on race, sex, sexual orientation, or gender identity.
- The lawsuit claims professors were forced to omit topics like Dred Scott v. Sandford and Nazi Germany's persecution of gay men; administrators reviewed roughly 8,500 courses, sending about 500 to the Board of Regents.
- Attorneys from Lambda Legal and the American Association of University Professors are asking a federal judge to block the system from enforcing the directives, which they argue trigger widespread self-censorship.
- Creighton defends the restrictions as a "continuum of common sense" intended to foster viewpoint diversity, though critics argue he is bypassing legislative failures to unilaterally impose restrictions administratively.
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Is Plato’s Republic too gay? This is one of many brave questions posed by the Texas Tech University System’s chancellor and Board of Regents as they implement an “extraordinary system of censorship in higher education,” according to a new lawsuit filed Wednesday in Texas federal court by faculty unions. The American Association of University Professors and the Texas AAUP-AFT said that Texas Tech is violating the First and Fourteenth Amendments…
Texas Tech Sued Over Rule Limiting Teaching Of Race And Gender
Source: Houston Chronicle/Hearst Newspapers / Getty Over the last several years, Texas has made a concerted effort to censor higher education and teach a revisionist version of American history. A group of Texas Tech faculty is pushing back against those efforts by suing the school system over its ban on teaching topics related to race, gender, and sexuality. The Washington Post reports that the American Association of University Professors and …
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