“Go to a private school, let them raise their own funds to teach, but we’re not going to fund them,” said the lieutenant governor. “I’m not going to pay for that nonsense.” via TexasTribune
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick’s announcement to eliminate faculty tenure tees up the next major fight at the Texas Capitol over how college students learn about the history of race and racism in the United States.said Friday that he will push to end professor tenure for all new hires at Texas public universities and colleges in an effort to combat faculty members who he says “indoctrinate” students with teachings about critical race theory.
Tenure is an indefinite appointment for university faculty that can only be terminated under extraordinary circumstances. Academics said Friday that tenure is intended to protect faculty and academic freedom from exactly the kind of politicization being waged by Patrick. “There’s always been attempts to interfere in higher education, but I have never seen anything as egregious as this attack,” said Irene Mulvey, president of the AAUP. “This is an attempt to have government control of scholarship and teaching. That is a complete disaster. I’ve never seen anything this bad.”
According to federal data, about 53% of full-time faculty members at the University of Texas at Austin are tenured. Around 40% of all full-time instructional staffers at all public universities and health-related institutions were tenured in 2020. “I will not stand by and let looney Marxist UT professors poison the minds of young students with Critical Race Theory,” Patrickon Twitter. “We banned it in publicly funded K-12 and we will ban it in publicly funded higher ed. That’s why we created the Liberty Institute at UT.”
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