Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick has threatened to pull tenure for some professors, a move that experts fear could ultimately hurt Texas' economy.
Texas Republican politicians claim to value small government and big business. Yet critics say Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick betrayed both ideals last month with a politically motivated attack on the state’s higher education system.indefinite academic appointment for professors
, a high-level academic framework that investigates the ways racism is systemic. He also suggested vetoing tenure for new professors. “If students have a better educational system, meaning that there are high-quality workers who have been hired and retained, they are going to help deliver long-run educational benefits that translate into more productive workers, better-paid workers and ultimately more demand for businesses in the local economy,” he said.
Political experts are similarly sounding the alarm that Patrick’s culture war could have unintended consequences.because of the state’s burgeoning skilled workforce and its business-friendly policies. “That’s not going to happen in a Texas that doesn’t have tenure,” Joshua Blank, research director of the Texas Politics Project, told theFaculty members have also begun to speak out against what they see as an attack on academic freedom.
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