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Shop NowTexas goes after woke nonsense in new cease and desist notice from Governor’s office. Gov. Greg Abbott’s chief of staff sent a letter to all heads of state agencies and state-funded universities last month. The Texas Governor was putting them on notice either follow existing laws and drop their DEI policies for diversity, equity, and inclusion or else.
This week, Texas governor Greg Abbott's chief of staff sent a memo warning "hiring cannot be based on factors “other than merit" and DEI policies could violate federal and state employment lawshttps://t.co/YFnTK0zZku
— Susanna Vogel (@SusannaVogel1) February 10, 2023
Within a few weeks, the state’s largest university systems claim they are stopping their DEI policies. This is after the University system has spent millions of dollars over the years implementing illegal and harmful policies.
Gardner Pate, Abbott’s Chief of Staff, wrote, “federal and state law forbids discrimination against a current or prospective employee because of that person’s race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or military service.”
The letter continued by explaining that DEI “has been manipulated to push policies that expressly favor some demographic groups to the detriment of others. … Rather than increasing diversity in the workplace, these DEI initiatives are having the opposite effect and are being advanced in ways that proactively encourage discrimination in the workplace. Illegally adding DEI requirements as a screening tool in hiring practices or using DEI as a condition of employment leads to the exclusion and alienation of individuals from the workplace.”
NEW: The Texas A&M University System has ended the use of DEI statements in both admissions and faculty hiring.
“No university or agency in the A&M System will admit any student, nor hire any employee based on any factor other than merit.” pic.twitter.com/JuOrQizybb
— John Sailer (@JohnDSailer) March 3, 2023
Agencies and state-funded universities using taxpayer dollars to fund DEI initiatives, Pate said, was “inconsistent with the law.”
Not soon after, Texas A&M University System Chancellor John Sharp issued a statement, saying, “No university or agency in the A&M System will admit any student, nor hire any employee based on any factor other than merit.” He also “directed leaders of its 11 universities and eight agencies to stop asking job candidates for statements about their commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion in their applications”
Texas A&M had established faculty-hiring lines reserved solely for “underrepresented,” “racial minorities,” according to university emails. The emails were made public in a lawsuit filed by America First Legal that alleged A&M’s ACES program violates Title VI and Title IX of the Civil Rights Act.
Weeks after Sharp’s claim, as of March 23, A&M’s Office for Diversity website was still promoting its Accountability, Climate, Equity, and Scholarship (ACES) Faculty Fellows Program created to hire tenure-track professors reportedly using DEI policies.
