July 20, 2026
A professors union and its Texas affiliate asked a Texas federal court to stop Texas Tech University's chancellor and board from enforcing policies that, the unions say, censor academic speech on race, gender identity and sexual orientation, arguing the policies will cause irreparable harm to the university's teachers.
July 09, 2026
Texas Tech University's chancellor and board have been hit with a federal lawsuit alleging their policies on course content amount to an "extraordinary system of censorship," including by barring law students from receiving factual information about race related to the U.S. Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision.