Business school professors at the University of Texas at Austin have been advised to issue warnings to students in classes of potentially offensive and traumatizing curriculum content.
Richard Lowery, associate professor of finance at UT-Austin, posted part of the syllabus template on Twitter on Aug. 10 questioning its relevance.
“Behold our new syllabus template at the McCombs School of Business,” Lowery posted, adding “is this what you want to be paying for?”
While the entire document had standard suggestions on such things as attendance and grading, it encouraged content warnings for students, acknowledgement of indigenous land, and gender pronoun sensitivity.
Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick has vowed to end professor tenure for all new hires at state  public universities and colleges in an effort to combat Critical Race Theory. Photo taken in Austin on June 16, 2021. (Mei Zhong/The Epoch Times)
When contacted, Lowery told The Epoch Times the syllabus warning was a new suggestion this year—but noted social justice had become a dominant force at UT-Austin, which is one of Texas’ most prominent public universities….