
The Lege’s ‘Big Government Intrusion’ into University Academics
Expanding on last session's anti-DEI campus crackdown, Republicans are now going after gender and ethnic studies programs and faculty independence.
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Joelle DiPaolo is the Observer’s legislative intern covering the 2025 session. She is currently a senior journalism major at the University of Texas at Austin, where she spent three years as an editor and reporter at the Daily Texan. She previously interned for the Austin Chronicle and Texas Monthly.
Expanding on last session's anti-DEI campus crackdown, Republicans are now going after gender and ethnic studies programs and faculty independence.
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