US EditionTexas Tech System to End Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity Degrees, Limit Course Content
The memo freezes admissions to targeted programs and lets current students finish, while limiting core courses and steering hiring toward new priorities.
- On Friday, Texas Tech University System Chancellor Brandon Creighton ordered campuses to phase out academic programs centered on sexual orientation and gender identity, requiring the system's five universities to freeze admissions by June 15.
- Creighton, a former Republican state senator who sponsored a 2023 law banning diversity, equity and inclusion, framed the directive as ensuring programs are "rigorous, relevant, and produce degrees of value."
- The policy requires the "legal recognition of only two human sexes" and prohibits teaching gender identity as a spectrum; Creighton implemented an AI algorithm to review roughly 14,000 courses across the system.
- Texas AAUP-AFT president Andrew Martin called the policy a "brazen disregard" for delivering a complete education, while students said the university can no longer provide an "honest education."
- Public higher education leaders across Texas have been moving to limit instruction on race, sex, and gender over the past year amid intense political pressure, though currently enrolled students may complete their degrees.
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Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Programs on the Chopping Block at Texas Tech
The Texas Tech University System has completed its course content review related to sexual orientation, gender identity and DEI issues placing courses that focus on these topics on the chopping block. Chancelor Brandon Creighton outlined the phase out process for programs in an April 9 memo that stated in part the following: To govern this...
Texas Tech System leader cancels academic programs “centered on” sexual orientation, gender identity - The Morning Sun
Texas Tech University System’s chancellor on Friday ordered campuses to phase out academic programs “centered on” sexual orientation and gender identity — a dramatically expanded policy that also places limits on what can be researched and which faculty can be hired. Chancellor Brandon Creighton’s memo gives provosts until June 15 to identify targeted programs and requires the system’s five universities to freeze admissions and halt students fro…
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Texas Tech System leader cancels academic programs “centered on” sexual orientation, gender identity
Texas Tech University System’s chancellor on Friday ordered campuses to phase out academic programs “centered on” sexual orientation and gender identity — a dramatically expanded policy that also places limits on what can be researched and which faculty can be hired.
Texas Tech University to Close Gender, Sexuality Programs
All majors, minors, certificates and graduate degrees that are “centered on” sexual orientation or gender identity must be phased out and canceled, Texas Tech University system chancellor Brandon Creighton told university presidents in a memo Friday. The decree is an escalation of the course content review policies implemented last year and reflects a trend of academic censorship at Texas public institutions.
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