For over 20 years, Texas state education law has been directly at odds with federal statutes.
“Public employees do not surrender all First Amendment rights because of their employment,” the judge in the case wrote.
The Texas A&M System, home to the state’s most populous university, announced that protocols will remain unchanged and may continue into the 2021-2022 school year.
While some private universities in Texas have required tests, Texas A&M is the first major public college in the state to take this measure.
Though the lawsuit is nominally against UNT, the think tank hopes for a declaration that out-of-state tuition for all state universities in Texas violates the U.S. Constitution.
The UNT College of Music is investigating claims of racism against a professor who defended a 20th-century Austrian music theorist in a journal published by the school.
After an online tiff between a conservative group and progressives at the University of North Texas, President Neal Smatresk said he would be "looking into" the requests to ban the conservative group.
A math professor filed a federal lawsuit against his former employer after he was fired for making a joke about flyers warning of "microaggressions."
