Professors at the University of Houston (UH) are complaining about a new rule requiring them to self-check their coursework to ensure they are not indoctrinating students.
Professors reportedly received a memo from UH administrators announcing they may soon be required to evaluate their curricula for “personal or institutional advocacy,” according to Chron. The proposed rule was written in response to a recently enacted state law requiring schools to review programs to ensure they do not contain biased views and actually “prepare students for civic and professional life.”The university previously asked faculty to sign a pledge to “not indoctrinate” students with their course materials, a move that prompted outrage from some professors, Chron reported.
“This is too much,” María C. González, associate English professor at UH, told Chron. “We’ve already dealt with the loyalty oath [committing not to indoctrinate]. And now you want us to do something like a self-evaluation that basically sets us up to self-censor?”…