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SB 37's fallout and funding and curriculum changes forecast the higher education fight to come in 2027.

UT Austin Faculty and Students march to defend academic freedom on their campus. Photo by: Ahna Merryman-Stewart, CCR Studios Last week, Texas AFT-AAUP sued Chancellor Brandon Creighton and the Texas Tech University System Board of Regents over two system memoranda issued in April and December. Plaintiffs allege that the fallout has reached well beyond any one classroom and does not follow any consistent pattern. Faculty have been asked to cut specific words and phrases from

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 8, 2026 CONTACT: For AAUP: Kelly Benjamin, kbenjamin@aaup.org For Texas AAUP-AFT: Marco Guajardo, mguajardo@texasaft.org, press@seekerstrategies.com For LDF: media@naacpldf.org For Lambda Legal: uihekwereme@lambdalegal.org AAUP, Texas AAUP-AFT sue Texas Tech University System over restrictive course content policies Censorship memoranda violate faculty’s First and Fourteenth Amendment rights EL PASO, Texas – Today, the American Association of Uni

A high-profile firing at UT's popular radio station is another chapter in the ongoing fight against the politicization of higher education.

Pictures from a successful Texas AAUP-AFT Higher Education Summit in Houston, Texas.

Texas University Systems are meeting this month to review and vote on proposed system policies. With each quarterly meeting, regents continue to introduce and approve policies that encroach on course curriculum and faculty teaching methods. The University of Texas, Texas Tech, University of North Texas, and Texas State University systems all held their committee meetings this past week, and our Texas AAUP-AFT members stood alongside students and alumni to stand up to policie

Across Texas, students and faculty at all seven public university systems face efforts to censor student learning and faculty teaching. These efforts have embarrassed Texas institutions of higher education on a national stage and are denying students the rigorous education they need to thrive in their careers after graduation.

As quickly as our union has been responding to the events from last week, it seems like state leaders are also working overtime to make educators’ lives harder. In just one week, two faculty members have been fired, the Lieutenant Governor established a new education committee in the House and Senate, the TEA has begun… [ more ]