{"id":223183,"date":"2026-03-09T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/?p=223183"},"modified":"2026-03-09T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T10:00:00","slug":"texas-university-houston-indoctrination-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2026\/03\/09\/texas-university-houston-indoctrination-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP-led fight over allegations of student indoctrination raises tensions at University of Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-custom-everlit-iframe-embed\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Everlit Audio Player\" src=\"https:\/\/everlit.audio\/embeds\/artl_NKZGXc1rMVa?ui_cover_art=false&amp;ui_title_intro=Listen+to+this+article&amp;ui_title_icon=headphones&amp;client=wp&amp;client_version=3.0.3\" width=\"100%\" height=\"130px\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><style>.wp-block-custom-everlit-iframe-embed { margin: 0 !important; }<\/style><div class=\"everlit-disclaimer\" style=\"margin: 0;\"><div style=\"margin-top: -0.5rem;font-size: 0.7rem;color: #4a4a4a;font-family: Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif\">Audio recording is automated for accessibility. Humans wrote and edited the story. See our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/about\/ethics\/#ai-policy\">AI policy<\/a>, and give us <a href=\"https:\/\/airtable.com\/appFeleeKVUN0Iytx\/pagPG40gbkU0EfjIr\/form\">feedback<\/a>.<\/div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After two legislative sessions in which Republican lawmakers hammered universities as bastions of liberal indoctrination, campuses across Texas are restricting how race and gender can be taught and requiring instructors to present controversial subjects in a \u201cbalanced\u201d way. At the University of Houston, some deans have taken the unusual step of requiring faculty to certify they \u201cteach, not indoctrinate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tensions on campus escalated when a five-page checklist instructing professors on how to review course materials was unveiled last month during a faculty council meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some professors say the checklist, coupled with the certification effort, reinforce what they see as a false premise: that indoctrination is widespread in university classrooms. They say the efforts pressure instructors to avoid controversial topics altogether.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>University officials say the certifications are not required \u2014 even though some deans described them as mandatory, with one saying punishment was an option for noncompliance \u2014 and that the checklist is a draft that is optional for faculty use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The officials say the reviews are part of efforts to comply with Senate Bill 37, a new state law that requires boards of regents at least once every five years to review the core classes all undergraduates must take to graduate and ensure they prepare students for civic and professional life. The law does not prohibit teaching of certain topics or require instructors to submit written assurances about their teaching. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In her annual State of the University <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uh.edu\/president\/communications\/state-of-the-university\/2025\/\">address<\/a> last fall, Chancellor and University of Houston President Renu Khator opened by warning that universities face mounting attacks and declining public trust.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe landscape of higher education is changing fast,\u201d she said, \u201cThe attacks \u2014 justifiable or not \u2014 are constant.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Khator pointed to a 2024 Gallup survey that found public confidence in higher education had fallen to a record low, with only 36% of Americans saying they had \u201ca great deal\u201d or \u201cquite a lot\u201d of confidence in colleges and universities. A July 2025 <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1-7JUunvTtyuSx8k0C79NZwZzr0mF8lXC\/view?usp=sharing\">update<\/a> showed trust ticking up to 42%, the only major U.S. institution to see an increase regardless of party affiliation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The certification requirement and checklist trace back to a series of messages and internal reviews that began late last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Language about indoctrination appeared in Khator\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uh.edu\/president\/communications\/communicae\/2025-11-21-curriculum-and-sb37\/\">Nov. 21 message<\/a> urging \u201cfaculty colleagues\u201d to review their course titles, syllabi and content, writing that the university\u2019s \u201cguiding principle is to teach them, not to indoctrinate them.\u201d She also directed department chairs and deans to help provide an objective assessment of courses and asked the Provost\u2019s Office and the Office of General Counsel to begin reviewing the core curriculum for compliance with SB 37.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a Jan. 27 campuswide update, Khator said the SB 37 core curriculum review had been completed and would be presented at the March 12 meeting of the board of regents. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In early February, some deans began requiring faculty to sign written statements affirming they were teaching critical thinking, not indoctrinating students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a Feb. 3 email, Daniel P. O\u2019Connor, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, said he had \u201cno evidence\u201d any instructor was violating the university\u2019s academic commitment but described the acknowledgement as necessary \u201cto document that all instructors are aware\u201d of the expectations, review their courses, and make revisions as needed.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In email replies to O\u2019Connor, some faculty declined to sign the acknowledgment, calling the premise of widespread indoctrination a \u201cstraw man.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Using language drafted by the university\u2019s chapter of the American Association of University Professors, faculty wrote that signing the acknowledgement could be construed as \u201csome admission of guilt concerning these false accusations.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI have never engaged in indoctrination and \u2026 take offense, as a scholar, at such insinuations,\u201d the emails said. \u201cTo have them paired with insinuations that I might have done otherwise \u2026 seems like it would bind me to admission of guilt for doing something that I have not done.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The emails also asserted that administrators lack the authority to require faculty to sign the acknowledgment or punish them for refusing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two other UH deans \u2014 Heidi Appel of the Honors College and Yarneccia D. Dyson of the Graduate College of Social Work \u2014 also described the certification as required in emails to faculty. Both cited language stating SB 37 requires that courses \u201cdo not endorse specific policies, ideologies or legislation,\u201d wording that appeared in earlier drafts but was removed before the law was passed. \n\nIn a message to Honors College instructors, Appel wrote that full-time faculty who declined to sign the acknowledgement would be ineligible for merit salary increases, while part-time faculty \u2014 many of whom work on semester- or year-long contracts \u2014 could risk reappointment. She gave them a deadline of Feb. 9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>O\u2019Connor, Appel and Dyson did not respond to an email containing detailed questions and a follow-up phone call.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Robert Zaretsky, who has taught at UH for 36 years and holds a joint appointment in the Honors College and the Department of Modern and Classical Languages, declined to sign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhen I saw the word indoctrination, for me, that\u2019s a red line,\u201d he said. \u201cIt was as if there was a good chance that we are indoctrinating our students.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zaretsky said he felt able to refuse because he has tenure, but he worried the policy could pressure instructors and adjunct faculty who \u201chave bills to pay and don\u2019t have job security.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amid disagreements over the acknowledgments, instructors got their first look at the draft checklist during a Feb. 11 meeting of the faculty council\u2019s curriculum committee. The document asks faculty to rate their courses \u201cyes,\u201d \u201cpartially\u201d or \u201cno\u201d on whether they require students to adopt a particular political or ideological viewpoint, present multiple perspectives and avoid requiring students to express their personal beliefs or penalizing them for those beliefs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to faculty members present at the meeting, the agenda said nothing about the checklist, with committee members saying they were not involved in drafting it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>University officials said the checklist was written by a faculty group, but they have declined to name participants or explain how members were selected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The confusion over the document\u2019s origins comes as SB 37 also reshaped faculty governance at public universities. Faculty senates have traditionally operated as independent bodies elected by professors. The new law requires boards of regents to establish any faculty council or senate and allows university presidents to appoint members. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zaretsky said he first saw the checklist when it circulated among faculty on a private email list after the meeting. He said it could complicate classroom instruction, particularly the recommendation that faculty present multiple perspectives on controversial topics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOur students struggle with even one article,\u201d he said. \u201cTo have them read multiple articles \u2026 it\u2019s going to sink the course. It\u2019s too much ballast.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a March 2 letter, 174 UH professors who are members of AAUP urged the faculty council to formally vote on the checklist rather than allow it to move forward without a recorded position.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The professors argued that nothing in SB 37 prevents the faculty council from voting and warned that failing to do so would amount to \u201csilent approval of the administration\u2019s actions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe understand the pressures you are under, and we understand how difficult this moment is. Nonetheless, we prevail on you to be courageous and accurately represent the sentiments of the faculty at this critical juncture,\u201d the letter said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The dispute has also prompted the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression to write to the university and argue that requiring faculty to affirm they present multiple perspectives or avoid certain viewpoints could violate First Amendment protections for academic freedom. University officials disagreed, saying the guidelines were drafted by faculty for voluntary use and that no mandatory affirmations or enforcement mechanisms exist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dona H. Cornell, UH\u2019s chief legal officer, said in a letter responding to FIRE that the broader course review is intended to demonstrate the strength of the university\u2019s academic standards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOur comprehensive, transparent review of all courses is intended to publicly verify what our faculty and alumni already know: that a UH education is built on the highest standards of excellence,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Documents reviewed by The Texas Tribune show the review process has already led to revisions in at least one course in the Graduate College of Social Work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In November, Dyson, the college\u2019s dean, sought volunteers to review 12 spring courses and offered a stipend as compensation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By mid-December, faculty scheduled to teach those courses were sent revised \u201capproved\u201d syllabi for the spring semester. The revised syllabus for one class cut several readings focused on race, gender and sexuality and removed more explicit references to those topics from the course\u2019s objectives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The controversy at UH is part of a broader wave of scrutiny across Texas public universities. After SB 37 took effect in September and a video of a Texas A&amp;M professor discussing gender identity sparked backlash from leading conservatives, public university systems moved to preempt further criticism by reviewing and revising courses. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Texas State University <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2025\/12\/15\/texas-universities-ai-course-audits\/\">flagged<\/a> hundreds of courses for review and told faculty to use an artificial intelligence tool to revise titles, descriptions and learning outcomes in favor of more neutral language.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2026\/02\/04\/texas-tech-race-gender-sexuality-review-creighton\/\">Texas Tech<\/a>, the chancellor created a review process requiring certain instruction on race and gender to be disclosed, and, in some cases, approved before it can be taught.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Texas A&amp;M regents <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2025\/12\/18\/texas-am-race-gender-courses-new-rules\/\">approved<\/a> a policy restricting courses that address \u201crace or gender ideology\u201d without written approval, while University of Texas regents adopted a rule requiring campuses to ensure students can graduate without studying what they describe as \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2026\/02\/19\/texas-university-ut-regents-unnecessarily-controversial-subjects\/\">unnecessary controversial subjects<\/a>\u201d and to take a \u201cbroad and balanced\u201d approach when those topics arise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><i>The Texas Tribune partners with Open Campus on higher education coverage.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Disclosure: University of Houston has been a financial supporter of The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan news organization that is funded in part by donations from members, foundations and corporate sponsors. 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