A Texas association of professors is demanding that the University of Texas cancel the firings of multiple employees. This comes as the university shut down the school’s community engagement division this week to comply with the state’s diversity, equity and inclusion ban.
FILE In this Thursday, Nov. 29, 2012 photo, ivy grows near the lettering of an entrance to the University of Texas in Austin , Texas . A group of University of Texas professors is demanding the reversal of job cuts after the 52,000-student campus shut down a program this week to comply with one of the nation’s most sweeping bans on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. FILE - In this Sept.
The school’s chapter of the American Association of University Professors has estimated that 60 people in DEI roles at the campus were let go but have not said how it arrived at that number. In a letter sent Thursday, the group argued that the cuts violated employees’ rights to academic freedom, due process and freedom of expression. It also criticized what it called a lack of transparency about how decisions were made and why input from faculty council was not taken into account.
The new Texas laws applies to the state’s more than 30 public institutions — which serve over 600,000 students in higher education. It bans the universities from influencing hiring practices with affirmative action and other approaches that take into account applicants’ race, sex or ethnicity.
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