Texas has trod this path before, and it took years to undo the damage UT endured after...
University of Texas students and faculty make their way through campus via the UT Tower in Austin. File photo from 2013.Young Danny Goeb was never meek;Chasing fame, he changed his name,Oh, sorry, we got carried away with the legend of Danny Goeb, the native Baltimorean who has anointed himself supreme arbiter of Texas history.
Wading into Texas history not long ago, it was the Battle of the Alamo that earned his ire, after a recent book offered a revisionist history of that iconic battle. His Twitter rant was in response to a vote by the Faculty Council of the University of Texas at Austin approving a resolution rejecting “any attempt by bodies external to the faculty to restrict or dictate the content of university curriculum on any matter, including matters related to racial and social justice.” The vote was 41-5, with three abstentions.
Every Texan, not just Patrick, needs to know that we have been here before. In the early 1940s, members of the University of Texas board of regents, appointed by Gov. Coke Stevenson and his predecessor, Pappy O’Daniel, decided that so-called liberal professors were themselves in need of a hard lesson. Scouring syllabi and curricula, the regents found evidence of professors who seemed to be sympathetic to labor unions and the “socialist” programs of President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal.
UT historian Bill Brands, the author of a number of books about Texas, expects that Patrick’s assault on academic tenure is likely to prove an empty threat., “the realistic members of his party will remind him that Houston became a world leader in medicine, Austin a midcontinent alternative to Silicon Valley and Dallas the fastest-growing metropolitan area in the country in no small part because of the quality of higher education in the state of Texas.
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