Overview
- Chancellor Brandon Creighton issued the directive Friday, giving provosts until June 15 to list majors, minors, certificates, and graduate degrees for phaseout.
- Programs flagged for closure must halt new admissions and major declarations, with teach-out plans so current students can finish.
- The memo restricts core and lower-level courses from assigning content focused on sexual orientation or gender identity and bars teaching a gender spectrum as scientific fact.
- Offerings likely on the chopping block include women’s and gender studies at Texas Tech, Midwestern State, and Angelo State, with temporary allowances for theses by students already enrolled.
- Faculty and civil-rights groups warn of constitutional and academic-freedom violations as students report disrupted studies and at least one graduate dropout, and the system says future hiring will align with the policy.