Texas Tech’s brand-new Chancellor, Brandon Creighton, has apparently decided that college students are far too fragile to hear about scary concepts like race, gender, or sexual orientation. Naturally, he issued a couple of memos scrubbing these topics from academic programs and undergraduate core courses. Now, two faculty groups are dragging the university system to federal court, alleging that Creighton’s crusade to protect young minds from the real world is a blatant violation of their constitutional rights.
Creighton—a former Republican state senator who conveniently couldn’t get these exact censorship provisions passed into law last year before he snagged the chancellor gig—claims this is all just a “continuum of common sense” meant to prepare students for the workforce. Because nothing screams “ready for a modern career” like graduating with a degree where your professors were legally barred from mentioning reality. The paranoia is so intense that court records show one professor was instructed to delete the word “systemic” from a syllabus just so it wouldn’t spook the university’s Board of Regents.
The chilling effect is working exactly as intended. Professors across five campuses are frantically self-censoring, altering lessons on Black history, constitutional law, and even medical care for trans patients just to avoid the wrath of their politically appointed overlords. One biology professor finally threw her hands up and quit after five years, correctly pointing out that Texas Tech students are now paying university tuition to receive a partially censored, incomplete education.
If Texas Tech keeps outlawing reality to better prepare its students for the workforce, where exactly are they expecting these kids to get jobs—1952?
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