Interim Texas Legislative Session 2024

• Please join AAUP to organize and mobilize for higher ed in Texas, Texas AAUP, May 26, 2024
• “Senate Higher Ed Subcommittee Convenes to Study DEI, Free Speech, & Antisemitism“, Texas AFT, May 16, 2024
  • Testimony from 85 on anti-DEI SB 17, 46 on free speech, and 23 on antisemitism. Some testified on more than one topic.
  • Videorecording. Public testimony begins at 5:55:00. Testimony by
    • AAUP Members Leonard Bright (5:59:09), Andrea Gore (6:11:38), David Albert (7:12:38), Brian Evans (7:32:57), Angela Valenzuela (8:24:26), Brent Iverson (8:44:07), Polly Strong (9:42:54)
    • NAACP LDF Antonio Ingram (6:45:06)
    • TFA President & AAUP Member Pat Heintzelman (7:30:40)
    • TSEU Member Anne Lewis (8:00:30)
    • Texas NAACP President Gary Bledsoe (10:07:47)
• Texas AAUP Response to Gov. Abbott’s Executive Order Relating to Antisemitism, Texas AAUP, April 13, 2024
  • Widening Antisemitism Definition May Lead to Narrowing Education, AAUP, November 2022.
  • Legislative Threats to Academic Freedom: Redefinitions of Antisemitism and Racism, AAUP, March 2022
• Republican Higher Education Legislative Priorities for the 89th Texas Legislature (1/14/25 to 6/2/25), Texas AAUP, April 11, 2024
• Mass Firings of UT Austin Staff, Faculty, and Administrators, UT Austin AAUP Chapter, April 2, 2024, due to external pressure to overcomply with SB 17.

Texas Legislative Session 2023

• Analysis: Manufacturing Backlash: Right-Wing Think Tanks and Legislative Attacks on Higher Education, 2021–2023, Isaac Kamola.
• Survey: Faculty in Red States concerned by political interference
• Call to Action: Update UT campus policies concerning tenure SB 18
• Bill Analysis: Tenure SB 18 – Anti-DEI SB 17 – Censorship SB 16
• SB 17: Guidance & Syllabi Language – Research Study – Analysis
• Legislative Advocacy: Summary – Bill Tracker – Resources