Texas Lt. Governor Proposes Eliminating Tenure to Rid CRT from Public Universities
March 8, 2022 | Texas
The Texas Lieutenant Governor has stated his priority to eliminate tenure in an attempt to stop Critical Race Theory (CRT) from “poisoning the minds of the next generation.”
During a Feb. 18 press conference, Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick argued that academia has been infiltrated by “tenured, leftist professors” and called for additional oversight methods to crack down on the controversial curriculum.
Patrick defined CRT as “an offshoot of critical legal studies, which is an offshoot of a socialist program (which says) that everything that happened in life is based on racism.”
The notion would affect all new hires at public Texas universities and would re-structure reviews for already-tenured personnel to occur annually rather than on a six-year term. Professors who continue to push CRT in their curriculum would risk having their tenured status revoked.
Accountability would also be enforced by the Board of Regents, who would also be granted “more authority” to resolve problems regarding tenure… (Excerpt from the Virginia Star)
