Conservative lawmakers have accelerated efforts to try to rein in what they see as liberal indoctrination on college campuses, with dozens of state bills igniting debates in recent months over academic priorities and how public universities should operate.
at PEN America.The bills create a climate of fear because faculty and others get the message that legislators may step in and ban majors or shut down offices they don’t like, Young said. “You can’t really have an environment of intellectual freedom on a campus if there isn’t some level of insulation between the campus governance and legislative bodies, political bodies,” he said.
“What we’d like to do is to be able to help more people of color succeed in college,” he said of the DEI efforts. “ … The Republicans seem to see this as threatening. I don’t get it.”who is co-sponsoring a House version, said the bill resonated with his experiences in law school, where professors talked about their political beliefs and students on the right often kept silent their opposing opinions.
Meanwhile, the bill ending DEI offices, required training and statements — with some exceptions such as programs required by federal law — is headed to the governor’s desk. The bill’s sponsor, Sen. Brandon Creighton , said on social media it “will result in millions in savings for taxpayers and restore a culture of free inquiry, meritocracy, equal opportunity, genuine innovation within Texas higher education.
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