Texas’s Tip of the Spear

James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal ^ | December 9, 2025 | Stanley K. Ridgley

[karpov]

Higher-education reform has a new hero, and he hails not from the self-styled patrician environs of the Ivy League but from Texas.

We all know how tough it is to reform higher education given the ideological capture that permeates many universities. But the chancellor of the Texas Tech University System has exerted himself in a way that should establish him in the official pantheon of friends of higher education. If such a pantheon does not exist, well, let Chancellor Brandon Creighton be the first illustrious inductee.

What did the good chancellor do to merit this honor?

In one fell swoop, Chancellor Creighton excised the cancer of pseudoscientific academic fakery plaguing every university in the five-campus system and did much to ensure that it won’t return. He asserted much-needed oversight over a carping faculty and DEI hangers-on, who have had their way in the curricula for far too long—enough time to politicize and degrade the value of a college degree. That degradation is something that none of us wants. Now, someone with integrity, the desire to stop the decline of our universities, and the power and will to use it has finally emerged.

Creighton sent a memorandum on December 1 to the presidents of all five institutions in the Texas Tech system, directing them to—deep breath—“ensure that classroom instruction fully complies with state and federal law, Board of Regents policy, and Chancellor directives.”

That’s it: a directive to obey the law of Texas, particularly where “race- and sex-based prejudice” and transgenderism are concerned. The directive includes a mechanism, backed by the recently passed Texas Senate Bill 37, whereby the law cannot be skirted by the less scrupulous among the faculty.

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TOPICS: Education
KEYWORDS: academia; college; dei; education; fraud; reform; texas; texastech

[decal]

All right, good backswing - now let’s see what happens in the follow-through.

decal - Texas Tech University, Class of 1984 1/2

[spankalib]

Now I hope they go far in the playoffs...

[eastexsteve]

Now, if they will only do something to fix public school. That sleight-of-hand fakery that Abbot calls “a voucher system and major school reform” ain’t gonna get it.

[Cold Heart]

BTTT

[Blood of Tyrants]

Now let’s see if the rules have teeth.