Academic Freedom and DEI

Texas Tech University System Chancellor Brandon Creighton issued a Monday memo limiting how instructors may teach topics related to race, sex, gender identity and sexual orientation, barring the 'promotion' of specified concepts and creating a new approval process for course content that touches those areas. The policy defines 'promotion' as presenting those beliefs as correct or required and pressuring students to affirm them, routes content through department chairs, deans and the provost with Board of Regents review/notification, and warns noncompliance may result in discipline as the system prepares for the spring semester.