Texas Tech Chancellor Brandon Creighton has drawn a boundary around the type of personnel and students he hopes his institution will attract.
During a media appearance in Lubbock, Creighton told KCBD that potential faculty or students with an interest in gender studies were a poor fit for the Red Raiders.
“They can pursue any other learning avenue or path online or within some other medium that they choose to, but no,” Creighton said.
Creighton’s comment follows a December policy memo he issued that prohibits advocacy of “race or sex-based prejudice” at system institutions.
The memo, which was issued to the system’s five campus presidents, is designed to ensure “that classroom instruction fully complies with state and federal law, Board of Regents policy, and Chancellor directives.”
A former state senator, Creighton was the primary author of several pieces of legislation that overhauled university governance. While Creighton is now in charge of implementing laws he helped write, the prohibition on “sex-based prejudice” is not legislatively mandated.
The Texas Tech University System is the parent organization of five institutions, including the main campus in Lubbock. It is overseen by a Board of Regents that is appointed by the governor and confirmed by the Texas Senate. Cody Campbell, of Fort Worth, is the current board chairman.
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