Texas passed a law last year requiring higher ed institutions in the state to stop teaching the divisive, non-educational junk going under the rubric of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Many faculty and administrators wailed that academic freedom was being taken away.
The good news is that one of the state’s leaders, Texas Tech chancellor Brandon Creighton has told the people in his five-school system that they are expected to obey the law.
In this Martin Center article, Professor Stan Ridgley writes about this shocking development.
He writes:
This is a long overdue correction that almost all colleges and universities need desperately. The race-and-gender situation in the “studies” classrooms and in other assorted social work and education offerings on campus has become increasingly untenable. Political partisans and fake academics have long smuggled their own pseudoscientific racialist and sexualist doctrines into classrooms as the truth, not just as one of several perspectives that have been in academic contention for some time.
Exactly. Colleges and universities in every state have fallen under the domination of people who are eager to indoctrinate students in the “progressive” cliches that make them easy marks for politicians who are looking for voters to support their agenda of radical transformation of the U.S. Most educational leaders have cowered in fear before them. Not Creighton.
Ridgley continues, “Creighton’s Texas Tech memo recognizes that, when radicals talk about “teaching about race,” they are referring to a primitive Farrakhan-like doctrine of racialism. It is this doctrine that Texas Tech will no longer countenance, and that’s a victory for higher education.”
There’s some early Christmas cheer.