LUBBOCK, Texas — Texas Tech University announced new restrictions on courses and content regarding sex or race via a Monday memorandum from the chancellor.
The memorandum states that advocacy or promotion of race or sex-based prejudice from a faculty member is prohibited. Faculty are not allowed to foster ideas such as one race or sex being inherently superior, moral character or worth coming from race or sex and individuals carrying responsibility or guilt for what others of the same sex or race do.
Other ideas banned from promotion include meritocracy or a strong work ethic being racist, sexist, or otherwise oppressive and someone’s race or sex making them inherently racist, sexist or oppressive.
The memorandum defines promotion or advocacy as “presenting these beliefs as correct or required and pressuring students to affirm them, rather than analyzing or critiquing them as one viewpoint among others.”
The new restrictions also extend to course content, which cannot promote “activism on issues related to race or sex, rather than academic instruction.” Any course content regarding gender identity and sexual orientation must receive approval from the university’s board of regents.
Texas Tech is the second Texas university to institute such measures, the first being Texas A&M. A November vote from the Aggies’ university system made it so that the school president must approve course content about race and gender.
Read the full memo below.