4+ mon, 2+ week ago  (562+ words) LUBBOCK, Texas "The Texas Tech University System has released standards and a review process to review course material at its five universities that is deemed controversial by state and federal laws. According to the system, the guidance outlines expectations for…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (957+ words) Six weeks after the spring semester began, the Texas Tech University System Board of Regents met Thursday but did not publicly answer a central question facing professors: What, exactly, are they allowed to teach about race, gender and sexuality? Texas…...

8+ mon, 4+ hour ago  (1053+ words) The Texas Tech University System Board of Regents has created and adopted rules for the creation of faculty senates on each of the five component universities. This comes after the'Texas Legislature passed Senate Bill 37, which is aimed at moving control…...

5+ day, 21+ hour ago  (643+ words) The Texas Tech University System has concluded its course content review related to sexual orientation, gender identity and other diversity, equity and inclusion issues, sparking backlash from some in the TTU and Lubbock community. The results concluded that each of…...

4+ mon, 6+ day ago  (317+ words) LUBBOCK, Texas " A well-known First Amendment advocacy group " Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) "is asking the Texas Tech University System to reconsider implementing its teaching restrictions on gender and race topics. For context, the TTU System implemented new…...

9+ mon, 3+ week ago  (450+ words) This story has been updated with a clarification from an earlier version. Individuals participating in the Rainbow Sit-In brought a little color to Tuesday's Lubbock City Council meeting as they sat in order from red to purple, waving Pride flags…...