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The memo freezes admissions to targeted programs and lets current students finish, while limiting core courses and steering hiring toward new priorities.<\/p>\n
LeftCenterRightGround G Logo LightBias ComparisonGround G Logo Bias ComparisonOn Friday, Texas Tech University System Chancellor Brandon Creighton ordered campuses to phase out academic programs centered on sexual orientation and gender identity, requiring the system’s five universities to freeze admissions by June 15.Creighton, a former Republican state senator who sponsored a 2023 law banning diversity, equity and inclusion, framed the directive as ensuring programs are “rigorous, relevant, and produce degrees of value.”The policy requires the “legal recognition of only two human sexes” and prohibits teaching gender identity as a spectrum; Creighton implemented an AI algorithm to review roughly 14,000 courses across the system.Texas AAUP-AFT president Andrew Martin called the policy a “brazen disregard” for delivering a complete education<\/a>, while students said the university can no longer provide an “honest education.”Public higher education leaders across Texas have been moving to limit instruction on race, sex, and gender over the past year amid intense political pressure, though currently enrolled students may complete their degrees.Wrench IconDoes this summary seem wrong?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published 15 hours ago \u2022 loading… \u2022 Updated 13 hours ago The memo freezes admissions to targeted programs…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":["post-249524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}