Texas is poised to become the latest GOP state to exert control over university curriculum

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Source: AP

Updated 4:38 PM EDT, June 2, 2025


The gubernatorially appointed boards that oversee Texas universities soon could have new powers to control the curriculum required of students and eliminate degree programs. The legislation sent Monday to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott marks the latest effort among Republican-led states to reshape higher education institutions that they assert have been promoting liberal ideology. It follows similar moves in Florida and Ohio.

The state actions come as President Donald Trump’s administration also has injected itself into higher education, leveraging federal funding and its student visa authority to clamp down on campus activism and stamp out diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. Some professors contend the moves violate the principles of academic freedom that many universities have followed for decades.

“Political operatives have basically used their positions of power — political power, economic power — to demand that the institutions conform to their ideas,” said Isaac Kamola, director of the Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom at the American Association of University Professors.

“It’s an existential attack on higher education that we’re facing,” added Kamola, a political science professor at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.

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[OldBaldy1701E]

1. As bad as it may sound, I think the faculties at the public universities should just stop teaching there.

Let's see how they like it when they literally cannot hold classes due to no instructors. The staffs should quit as well. Let's see if these rethug legislators can run the schools themselves since they want to be so involved with things they know little or nothing about.