Texas Tech University System Chancellor Brandon Creighton implemented new restrictions regarding how faculty can discuss race, gender, and sexual orientation in the classroom. Now regional and national faculty organizations are suing Creighton for racial discrimination and for violating professors' free speech.
The new deans are Mary Ann Danowitz at North Carolina State University, Cheryl Holcomb-McCoy at American University, Catharine O'Connell at Illinois College, Carolyn Gascoigne at Angelo State University, Sally C. Morton at Virginia Tech, and Melissa Murray at the University of California, Berkeley.