EXCLUSIVE: TCU Syllabi Push ‘Settler Colonialism,’ Race-Focused Curriculum As University Promotes LGBTQ+ Advocacy

EXCLUSIVE: TCU Syllabi Push ‘Settler Colonialism,’ Race-Focused Curriculum As University Promotes LGBTQ+ Advocacy

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TCU Syllabi Push Settler Colonialism, LGBTQ Advocacy

Fall 2026 graduate-course syllabi obtained by The Dallas Express show Texas Christian University placing “settler colonialism,” “structural violence,” decolonial thinking and group “complicity” at the center of two College of Education courses. The documents do not present those concepts only as historical subjects for debate. One syllabus describes a land acknowledgment as part of “the […]