The bills are part of Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick’s list of priorities and, if passed, could have profound impacts on how Texas universities recruit top faculty and other employees. Texas txlege TxPolitics highereducation highered
Creighton also filed a bill that would prohibit Texas’ higher education institutions from considering diversity, equity and inclusion when hiring new employees. The third bill, filed by Sen.
Last year, Patrick announced a proposal to eliminate tenure for future hires as a way to combat faculty members who he said “indoctrinate” students with teachings about “critical race theory.” As filed, Creighton's bill would let employees who have or were awarded tenure before Sept. 1 hold on to the benefit. And it allows the board of regents of a university system to establish their own"tiered employment status for faculty members."
Creighton also filed a bill that would prohibit the use of diversity statements in hiring; ban offices that focus on diversity, equity and inclusion efforts; and expand the powers of boards of regents in hiring top administrators at their universities. Creighton's bill prohibits these statements statewide. It also says a university may not create or have a diversity, equity and inclusion office that considers anything but"color-blind and sex-neutral hiring processes," conducts trainings or activities related to"race, color, ethnicity, gender identity or sexual orientation," unless those trainings are approved in writing by the university's general counsel and the Texas Attorney General.
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