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Chancellor Brandon Creighton\u2019s memo said the system will \u201cprioritize [faculty] recruitment in alignment with this memorandum.\u201d<\/p>\n
Photo illustration by Justin Morrison\/Inside Higher Ed | raclro\/iStock\/Getty Images | Jason Fochtman\/Houston Chronicle\/Getty Images<\/p>\n
All majors, minors, certificates and graduate degrees that are \u201ccentered on\u201d 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.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The memo requires that gender and sexuality content be sorted into one of three groups: content that is \u201ccentered on\u201d sexual orientation or gender identity, content that \u201cincludes\u201d those topics and content that incidentally references them. Provosts must then review courses and programs that fall into the \u201ccentered on\u201d category and recommend them for closure by June 15. Programs earmarked for closure must freeze admissions and begin a teach-out plan for currently enrolled students.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Student self-directed study and faculty research are exempt from the rules, though going forward the system will \u201cprioritize recruitment in alignment with this memorandum.\u201d Instruction required for licensures and instruction on \u201cchromosomal variations, Differences of Sex Development (DSDs), and intersex biological conditions\u201d is still allowed; however, professors who teach on those topics may not use them to \u201cadvocate for or validate sociological frameworks of fluid gender identities,\u201d the memo said.<\/p>\n
Creighton\u2019s memo also reinforced rules stating that faculty must recognize a strict gender binary and prohibits the \u201cendorsement of a gender spectrum or fluid gender identities as empirical biological science.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Jen Shelton, an associate professor of English, told The Texas Tribune<\/em> that the memo feels like a \u201cbetrayal.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cThe good news is I think the whole university has been betrayed. I think even the provost did not expect it to look like this, because it\u2019s people from the provost\u2019s office who have been coming to us and saying, \u2018Don\u2019t worry. This part is all going to be fine,\u2019\u201d Shelton said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Chancellor Brandon Creighton\u2019s memo said the system will \u201cprioritize [faculty] recruitment in alignment with this memorandum.\u201d Photo illustration by Justin Morrison\/Inside Higher Ed | raclro\/iStock\/Getty Images | Jason Fochtman\/Houston Chronicle\/Getty Images All majors, minors, certificates and graduate degrees that are \u201ccentered on\u201d sexual orientation or gender identity must be phased out and canceled, Texas Tech<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[1083,4170,348,24200,812,1010,781],"class_list":{"0":"post-48261","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-education","8":"tag-close","9":"tag-gender","10":"tag-programs","11":"tag-sexuality","12":"tag-tech","13":"tag-texas","14":"tag-university"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/48262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}