University of Texas President Jay Hartzell has told the school’s professors that he will defend tenure for faculty because removing it will “cripple Texas’ ability to recruit and retain great faculty members.”
Hartzell made the comment in a letter in response to Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick’s announcement last month that he would seek to eliminate tenure for new hires at all of the state’s public universities and add the teaching of critical race theory (CRT) as grounds to revoke a professor’s tenure.
