North Texas Denies Faculty Conference Funding

Texas public university won’t fund professor’s travel to DEI-forward event

University of North Texas says event organizer supports deferential treatment of ‘people on the basis of race, color or ethnicity‘ The University of North Texas recently refused to fund a journalism professor’s participation in an upcoming academic conference, stating that its focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion conflicts with state law. Tracy Everbach is the professor… Source

North Texas Denies Faculty Conference Funding

The institution joins other universities that have worked to limit conference funds for professors due to anti-DEI pressures. The University of North Texas has paid for journalism professor Tracy Everbach and her colleagues to attend a certain conference every year since she started at the university in 2004. Until this year.