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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Seven fifty one hour time here on Houston's Morning News.
All right, yeah, critical race theory, it's still showing up
in this case of Texas Tech in a class that
encourages critical race theory in Human Resources department, So it's
being taught in a specific class. A Luca Caritory joins
US reporter at the Texas Scorecard. So, Luca, how did
(00:21):
the information on this turn up? Because it seems to
me that the only way we ever find out about
this stuff is somebody blowing the whistle.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Sure. Yeah, We've actually been looking at universities across the
state for around two years now, and we've been looking
at some of the classes that they offer just to
make sure that certain ideologies that you know, we as Texans,
we don't typically associate ourselves with, you know, ideology surrounding
(00:50):
race and intersectionality, which is kind of a fancy term
that encompasses a lot of these things like critical race theory.
Searching for class syllabi, which are you know, essentially the
agenda that are offered for various courses. We've been looking
around at different universities like Texas A and M, University
(01:11):
of Texas at Austin and Texas Tech for classes like this,
and that's how we stumbled upon this specific class.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
The course is called Diversity and Cultural Competence in the Workplace.
I guess when you see diversity and cultural incompetence all
in the same sentence, you probably say to yourself, we
need to investigate this.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Yeah, yeah, exactly. I mean those are typically you know,
there's certain keywords where you can kind of read between
the lines and see what exactly is going on.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
So if you talk to the folks at Texas Tech
about this class, and if so, what have they said
to you about it? We did.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
They haven't said anything. And that's kind of typical for this,
since you know, reaching out to the universities, they'll either
give you a prepared statement or they won't give you
a statement at all. And in Texas Tech's regard, they
did not provide us with the statement on this.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Okay, So that being the case, and I'm not saying
this is your job to do it, I'm just curious,
do you report this to a state agency? And if so,
who do you report it to?
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Well, so the issue right now, Just for some background
on this, there's this bill Senate Bill seventeen, which was
past last session that prohibited public universities from establishing DEI
offices using DEI criterion hiring, or requiring employees or prospective
employees to attend de trading sessions. What it didn't, and
(02:35):
this is the really key thing, is it did not
cover DIICRT or intersectionality, these very fancy terms used in
course curriculum. So although these universities can't include it in
their hiring practices, they can't have these elaborate DEI offices
within their university, the actual classes they teach, including the
(02:58):
one Texas Tech that we're talking about now, can include
all of this stuff. And it can can include all
this stuff from an instructional standpoint. So although within the
actual university in these offices, you know, there might be
prohibitions against it, they're teaching the new generation of leaders
(03:19):
in business about this.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Do you think it was the state legislature's intent to
leave that out, do you? Or do you think this
is something they just forgot to cover.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Yeah, it's a great question. State Senator Brandon Creighton, who
authored the measures, said in December that he plans to
explain expand the DIIVAN to cover university governance. That these
sorts of things are being floated. So I think what
happens with a lot of the state legislature is they're
just very reactive. You know, the state legislature isn't a
(03:52):
proactive institution, and that requires you know, people to constantly,
you know, citizens, concerned citizens is across Texas, to constantly
try to push them forward on things, whether it be
de I C or T or anything else.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Okay, so they basically what you're saying is they react
to what has already occurred. They're not thinking about what
could a cure a cure occur in the future exactly.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
So stories like this that can potentially, you know, put
a light on it.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
All right, well, thanks for doing what you're doing, putting
the like on it. Looka we appreciate that. Reported with
the Texas coorecard. That's Luca Katatori
Seven fifty one hour time here on Houston's Morning News.
All right, yeah, critical race theory, it's still showing up
in this case of Texas Tech in a class that
encourages critical race theory in Human Resources department, So it's
being taught in a specific class. A Luca Caritory joins
US reporter at the Texas Scorecard. So, Luca, how did
(00:21):
the information on this turn up? Because it seems to
me that the only way we ever find out about
this stuff is somebody blowing the whistle.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Sure. Yeah, We've actually been looking at universities across the
state for around two years now, and we've been looking
at some of the classes that they offer just to
make sure that certain ideologies that you know, we as Texans,
we don't typically associate ourselves with, you know, ideology surrounding
(00:50):
race and intersectionality, which is kind of a fancy term
that encompasses a lot of these things like critical race theory.
Searching for class syllabi, which are you know, essentially the
agenda that are offered for various courses. We've been looking
around at different universities like Texas A and M, University
(01:11):
of Texas at Austin and Texas Tech for classes like this,
and that's how we stumbled upon this specific class.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
The course is called Diversity and Cultural Competence in the Workplace.
I guess when you see diversity and cultural incompetence all
in the same sentence, you probably say to yourself, we
need to investigate this.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Yeah, yeah, exactly. I mean those are typically you know,
there's certain keywords where you can kind of read between
the lines and see what exactly is going on.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
So if you talk to the folks at Texas Tech
about this class, and if so, what have they said
to you about it? We did.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
They haven't said anything. And that's kind of typical for this,
since you know, reaching out to the universities, they'll either
give you a prepared statement or they won't give you
a statement at all. And in Texas Tech's regard, they
did not provide us with the statement on this.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Okay, So that being the case, and I'm not saying
this is your job to do it, I'm just curious,
do you report this to a state agency? And if so,
who do you report it to?
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Well, so the issue right now, Just for some background
on this, there's this bill Senate Bill seventeen, which was
past last session that prohibited public universities from establishing DEI
offices using DEI criterion hiring, or requiring employees or prospective
employees to attend de trading sessions. What it didn't, and
(02:35):
this is the really key thing, is it did not
cover DIICRT or intersectionality, these very fancy terms used in
course curriculum. So although these universities can't include it in
their hiring practices, they can't have these elaborate DEI offices
within their university, the actual classes they teach, including the
(02:58):
one Texas Tech that we're talking about now, can include
all of this stuff. And it can can include all
this stuff from an instructional standpoint. So although within the
actual university in these offices, you know, there might be
prohibitions against it, they're teaching the new generation of leaders
(03:19):
in business about this.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Do you think it was the state legislature's intent to
leave that out, do you? Or do you think this
is something they just forgot to cover.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Yeah, it's a great question. State Senator Brandon Creighton, who
authored the measures, said in December that he plans to
explain expand the DIIVAN to cover university governance. That these
sorts of things are being floated. So I think what
happens with a lot of the state legislature is they're
just very reactive. You know, the state legislature isn't a
(03:52):
proactive institution, and that requires you know, people to constantly,
you know, citizens, concerned citizens is across Texas, to constantly
try to push them forward on things, whether it be
de I C or T or anything else.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Okay, so they basically what you're saying is they react
to what has already occurred. They're not thinking about what
could a cure a cure occur in the future exactly.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
So stories like this that can potentially, you know, put
a light on it.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
All right, well, thanks for doing what you're doing, putting
the like on it. Looka we appreciate that. Reported with
the Texas coorecard. That's Luca Katatori
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