Campus DEI Persists, Even in Texas

Texans should be worried about the state’s public universities. In September, a scandal erupted at Texas A&M after a student recorded a video of an English professor reading a book about a transgender 12-year-old and discussing different gender identities. The university president, Mark Welsh, put the dean of the school of arts and sciences and the head of the English department on leave before resigning himself. Yet Texas A&M is far from the only state school where divisive woke ideas endure. Despite federal and state attempts to rid campuses of “diversity, equity and inclusion,” that hateful worldview is still common across the Lone Star State.

Texas rightly prides itself as a national leader in the fight against DEI. In 2023 Gov. Greg Abbott signed a law prohibiting DEI offices, programs, activities and training at state colleges and universities. Most Texans probably thought this law, combined with President Trump’s executive order earlier this year rolling back DEI at taxpayer-funded institutions, had driven DEI out of state schools for good. Not so.

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