(THE COLLEGE FIX) – Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick’s recent announcement that he will pursue legislation to curb Critical Race Theory in the state’s public universities is stirring controversy among professors, with some praising the move and others slamming the proposal as a violation of academic freedom.
Patrick, a Republican who serves as president of the Texas State Senate and plays a leading role in shaping the chamber’s legislative agenda, pledged that state lawmakers would consider bills that would “eliminat[e] tenure at all public universities in Texas” and “define teaching Critical Race Theory in statute as a cause for a tenured professor to be dismissed” during the upcoming legislative session.
The plans drew backlash from professors at some of the state’s largest public universities. Faculty councils at the University of Texas at Austin and Texas A&M University quickly passed resolutions condemning the lieutenant governor’s attempt to crackdown on CRT.
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