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Higher education advocates call on lawmakers to fight for academic freedom in Texas

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A coalition of educators and union members are calling on Texas lawmakers to adopt a new policy platform that centers the needs of workers and students over billionaires and corporate interests at higher education institutions.
HIGHER ED - Courier Texas

University of Texas censors ‘controversial’ topics in class

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A new rule requires University of Texas professors to "carefully consider" their teaching material and "exclude unrelated controversial or contested matters."
While three Texas schools ultimately made the cut, two received the distinguished honor of making the Top 50: Houston’s Rice University, and the University of Texas at Austin.

2 Texas schools break into TIME’s top global university rankings

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TIME Magazine’s 2026 list of the World’s Top Universities included three Texas schools. Here are the 2 that made the Top 50.
HIGHER ED - Courier Texas

Texas A&M is creating an ‘environment of fear’

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Watch as Dr. Leonard Bright, a professor at Texas A&M University, describes life on campus after the implementation of a new website that turns students into higher education watchdogs. The online portal created by the Office of the Ombudsman allows students to file complaints against universities for violating the state’s diversity, equity, and inclusion ban on college campuses.
HIGHER ED - Courier Texas

Texas A&M Professor: ‘We’re playing with democracy itself’

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Watch as Dr. Leonard Bright—an ethics professor at Texas A&M whose class was recently canceled because of a new university policy that restricts discussions of race and gender in the classroom—breaks down what’s at stake for higher education in Texas. Read more about Bright and ongoing attacks on academic freedom in Texas at the link in our bio.
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