The woke purge continues across Texas university campuses, in the wake of new state laws that mandate an end to DEI policies and reviews of all coursework to ensure students aren’t being indoctrinated. The latest example is at Texas Tech, where new Chancellor Brandon Creighton recently told those interested in gender studies to look elsewhere than his campus. This after Creighton issued a memo to the Tech system presidents banning advocacy of “race or sex-based prejudice” in the classroom.
Creighton helped author the new laws when he was a state senator, but his new directive even goes a step further. “Senate Bill 37 which passed in 2025 does require boards of regents to conduct curriculum reviews which are ongoing, but Chancellor Creighton’s actions at Texas Tech actually go beyond state law,” says Adam Cahn, higher education reporter at Texas Scorecard. “We have state laws banning DEI, but course content does not fall under the scope of those laws.”
Texas Tech’s action follows similar changes at Texas A&M, UT-Austin, and even Texas State. “At Texas State, they have actually created standards for ideological neutrality in classroom instruction that I think can serve as a model for national reform,” says Cahn.
Cahn tells KTRH this is all part of a larger trend away from the years-long liberal dominance of higher education in Texas. “It’s going to be a multi-year, possibly a multi-decade process to root all this stuff out,” he says. “But just in the last few years, we have absolutely seen a sea change in terms of policies and actions taken by the senior leadership at these institutions.”