The Texas Tech University System has officially banned courses that promote “progressive” ideas about race and gender.
Texas Tech University System Chancellor Brandon Creighton announced the new course restrictions in a memo he drafted on Monday.
In the memo, Creighton said teachers may not promote the idea that “one race or sex is inherently superior to another; an individual, by virtue or race or sex, is inherently racist, sexist or oppressive, consciously or unconsciously; any person should be discriminated against or receive adverse treatment because of race or sex; moral character or worth is determined by race or sex; individuals bear responsibility or guilt for actions of others of the same race or sex; or meritocracy or a strong work ethic are racist, sexist or constructs of oppression.”
Or put more succinctly, teachers may not indoctrinate their students into believing wacko so-called “progressive” ideas about race and gender.
At the root of Progressive ideology is the idea that reality’s obvious differences – female/male, mother/father, citizen/alien, etc- are instead simply all “constructs”.
If you can be coerced to believing this ‘Woke’ nonsense then you can be made to believe anything pic.twitter.com/FBQAaKJmwu
— Gray Connolly (@GrayConnolly) April 19, 2025
Chancellor Creighton further explained that presenting “progressive” ideas “as correct or required and pressuring students to affirm them, rather than analyzing or critiquing them as one viewpoint among others,” will no longer be tolerated.
“The mission of the Texas Tech University System is to educate the next generation of Texas leaders and to drive innovation that strengthens our state and nation,” Creighton said in a statement. “These new guidelines reflect that mission by giving our faculty clarity, consistency, and guardrails that protect academic excellence.”
“The purpose of this framework is to support both strong academic freedom and the accountability needed to maintain excellence. I applaud the decisive support given by the Board of Regents to ensure our universities remain focused on what matters most – educating students, advancing research, and positioning the TTU System to lead the nation,” he added.
Not surprisingly, pushback has already begun to emerge from the school system’s “progressive” teachers, like communications professor Kelli Cargile Cook.
She told The Texas Tribune that the memo inspired her to scrap a class she’d planned to teach next spring and instead file a resignation letter.
“I’ve been teaching since 1981, and this was going to be my last class,” she told the paper. “I was so looking forward to working with the seniors in our major, but I can’t stomach what’s going on at Texas Tech.”
“I think the memo is cunning in that the beliefs that it lists are at face value, something you could agree with. But when you think about how this would be put into practice, where a Board of Regents approves a curriculum — people who are politically appointed, not educated, not researchers — that move is a slippery slope,” she added.
Complain as she might, Creighton’s memo is just the “first step” in the school system’s plan to implement Senate Bill 37, a piece of legislation that requires schools to ensure all their classes are on the up and up.
Too many Texas college students feel that they must censor themselves in the classroom. Senate Bill 37 by @CreightonForTX is vital for ensuring that Texas students can succeed in whatever their goals may be without the constant bombardment of progressive activism.
— Texas Public Policy Foundation (@TPPF) April 10, 2025
“Senate Bill 37 would create a state-level committee charged with recommending the courses that should be required for graduation,” the Texas Tribune reported in May.
“Each public university system’s board of regents — who oversee the school’s operations and are appointed by the governor — would also create committees to review curricula, which would be able to reject any course that is seen as ideologically charged or doesn’t align with workforce demands,” the reporting continued.
The goal of the bill is to move education in Texas away from the race/gender ideological bull that’s become so prevalent and toward what education was originally all about — mathematics, English, science, etc.
No more critical race theory at UT.
“Tonight, with final passage of Senate Bill 37, the faculty senate at the University of Texas at Austin had their power stripped and found out the Legislature does have authority over faculty senates after all! “ (4/15/25) https://t.co/Vy24UNGvJw
— Donna from Texas 🇺🇸 (@frit96352) April 17, 2025
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V. Saxena is a staff writer with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University. Saxena also contributes to BizPac Review.
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