FROM HIGHER ED DIVE: “Last year, the State of Texas passed legislation mandating reviews of public colleges’ general education courses and limiting faculty bodies to advisory roles. Gov. Greg Abbott has also declared that the state is targeting professors “pushing leftist ideologies.” Now, Texas Tech is moving to eliminate any programs “centered on” sexual orientation or gender identity, defined in the memo as topics that comprise the “primary subject, main theoretical framework, central narrative, or driving pedagogical purpose.” In a memo released on Tuesday, Tech Chancellor Brandon Creighton established a course policy that requires ‘recognition of only two human sexes and strictly prohibits the endorsement of a gender spectrum or fluid gender identities as empirical biological science.’ ” Read more here.