Dr. Leonard Bright

Dr. Leonard Bright

@drleonardbright.bsky.social

Professor, Author, and Champion of Academic Freedom and Accountability. I speak only for myself. drleonardbright.com

704 Followers 10 Following 59 Posts Joined Nov 2024
1 week ago

Correction: Indoctrination IS happening at UT.

It's just the Board of Regents that's doing it.

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6 days ago
Texas A&M System Regents respond to federal lawsuit, scathing donor remarks In addition to taking action on several agenda items, including approving additional funding for three major capital projects totaling approximately $269 million, the Regents heard from faculty and st...

TAMU BOR Chair Albritton’s dismissal of Jon Hagler’s defense of academic freedom as merely ‘his opinion’ ignores an obvious reality: his commitment to Texas A&M is measured not just in words, but in millions of dollars invested in the university’s future.

www.kbtx.com/2026/02/06/t...

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Texas A&M donors are speaking out. They do not support censorship and political interference in the classroom!

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Despite the deep confusion on campus among students, faculty, and staff, the Texas A&M Board of Regents continues to repeat its narrative that its embrace of political interference in the classroom is proceeding smoothly and with minimal impact.

Their Jedi mind trick is not working on anyone!

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Inside Texas A&M’s Scramble to Censor Its Curriculum Documents reveal widespread uncertainty, even among administrators, over what professors could teach.

www.chronicle.com/article/insi...

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3 weeks ago

You’re invited: This is a great opportunity to hear from our candidates running for Texas House District 14. Feb 20th at 6pm.

zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Join the Texas A&M Chapter this Friday, Feb. 20th, at 6pm for our first political candidate forum! We have invited all declared candidates in TX HD14 to participate in a conversation on higher education policy and the future of our institutions.

mobilize.us/texasaft/eve...

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3 weeks ago

My graduate ethics course at the Bush School of Government was canceled because I refused to censor discussion of how race, gender, and sexuality affect how public servants make life-and-death decisions and equal treatment under the law. Failing to confront that in an ethics course is frightening.

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Opinion: The Board of Regents has failed to protect A&M’s independence – The Battalion A time comes when silence starts to feel like betrayal. That time for me is now, as I watch the Texas A&M University System Board of Regents bow to politica

Jon Hagler '58 is again calling out the Texas A&M University Board of Regents over its censorship policies.

I stand with him!

thebatt.com/opinion/opin...

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Trump repeals EPA’s ability to regulate climate pollution | CNN The Trump Environmental Protection Agency delivered a significant blow to longstanding US climate policy on Thursday, finalizing rules to revoke a 2009 scientific finding that human-caused climate cha...

This should be a warning to anyone who believes academic censorship will stop at social science’s door. Science, Technology Engineering, and Math (STEM) are next on the blocks. When politics controls knowledge, truth will die with the Earth!

www.cnn.com/2026/02/12/c...

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UT to consolidate gender and ethnic studies programs into one new department Affected departments include those that focus on African and African Diaspora Studies, Mexican American Studies, Women and Gender Studies and American Studies.

This is a travesty. African and African Diaspora Studies at UT Austin has been one of the best programs in the country. And for historical context, this is explicitly about reversing the gains of student movements in the 60s and 70s.

www.statesman.com/news/educati...

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PEN America, 36 Organizational Partners, Call on Texas A&M to Rescind Censorship Policies On February 10, 2026, PEN America, joined by a broad group of 36 organizational partners, wrote to the Board of Regents of Texas A&M University to request that they rescind two policies, passed in fal...

PEN America, 36 Organizational Partners, Call on Texas A&M to Rescind Censorship Policies

pen.org/pen-america-...

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1 month ago
PEN American Presents at Texas A&M.

PEN America will be visiting Texas A&M—a timely opportunity to engage one of the nation’s leading defenders of the First Amendment. The visit opens space for meaningful dialogue on academic freedom, free speech, and the university’s role in a democratic society.

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Why Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion Matter in Academia? Don't Believe the Lies! YouTube video by The Bright Professor

Asked if I support DEI. The answer is yes—without hesitation.

DEI is about fairness, not politics. Diversity isn’t artificial—it’s fundamental to humanity and essential to our workplaces and universities.

youtu.be/mXaZXQjAvqk

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1 month ago
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Texas A&M System Regents respond to federal lawsuit, scathing donor remarks In addition to taking action on several agenda items, including approving additional funding for three major capital projects totaling approximately $269 million, the Regents heard from faculty and st...

TAMU BOR Chair Albritton stated that John Hagler have every right to disagree and be heard, while choking off academic freedom in the classroom, where only his views (and his political tribe) will be allowed; the rest will be censored or canceled out of existence.

www.kbtx.com/2026/02/06/t...

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Students are getting it said!

substack.com/@tamuaa...

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1 month ago

Texas A&M’s mission states that it has a historic trust in freedom of inquiry and a commitment to serving a diverse public. But the university’s recent actions tell a very different story.

Texas A&M has systematically abandoned its obligation to serve all Texans.k

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https://thebatt.com/news/letter-shows-texas-am-regent-david-baggett-discussed-insidious-infiltration-of-dei-with-gov-abbott-prior-to-appointment/

There are reports that the Board of Regents aim to make Texas A&M the nation's “most conservative university.”

If this is true, this is a betrayal!

A “public university” has no business, being politically conservative or liberal.

t.co/9qSZr2a72n

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https://www.texastribune.org/2026/02/04/texas-tech-race-gender-sexuality-review-creighton/

Keep in mind: Some other adult is deciding what other adults can read!

Is this really happening in America!

t.co/vNZvqFHkLk

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Aggie donor: Regents have failed to protect TAMU’s independence Texas A&M donor Jon Hagler says the school’s regents are failing it, threatening academic freedom and kowtowing to politicians.

The Aggie community is awake. Off the sidelines. In the fight against censorship at Texas A&M. Whoop!

www.dallasnews.com/opinion/comm...

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Texas A&M’s dishonesty around its censorship keeps deepening. On a radio show, Interim President Williams falsely claimed I complied in one course but acted in bad faith in my ethics course.

The truth: I played no role in seeking an exemption or the course design in that online course!

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The 2025 @aaup.org Faculty in the South Survey showed 25% of respondents had actually applied for a job in another state. Now a Chronicle survey says half of faculty nationwide have at least considered it. Deep morale issues. www.chronicle.com/article/what...

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1 month ago

We want the TRUTH and ONLY the TRUTH so help us God!

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‘Education is our right’: Protestors demonstrate for academic freedom Students and professors at Texas A&M gathered for a demonstration in support of academic freedom at Academic Plaza on Jan. 29.  A&M’s American Association of University Professors, or AAUP, chapter…

Education is our right.

“One thing I want to leave you here with is that Aggies ‘Gig ‘em,’ but we don’t ‘Gag ‘em’,” Bright said.  “We’re going to fight until hell freezes over, and then we’re going to fight on the ice.”

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Texas A&M University cancels programs in women's and gender studies The university said it had also modified hundreds of courses and cancelled six in efforts to eliminate teaching related to diversity, equity and inclusion.

"This is absolutely devastating for the faculty and colleagues who have done so much important and groundbreaking research and teaching in this area, and it's really devastating for the state of Texas."

— Ira Dworkin, TAMU AAUP VP

@texasaft.org
@texasaaup.bsky.social
@cwa-tseu.bsky.social

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1 month ago

In case you are wondering how seriously I take my responsibility to stand up and fight for the truth in higher education for my students, here is my answer:

“I WILL fight until hell FREEZES over and then I WILL fight on the ICE!”

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Texas A&M Stakes Out Turf as the Epicenter of Higher Education Censorship Texas A&M has escalated educational censorship in Texas by canceling Women and Gender Studies and many classes.

PEN is paying attention!

(Is the Board of Regents?)

#BTHOcensorship

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“Plato Now, Science Later.” Letter to the editor by Peter Hugill, Professor emeritus at Texas A&M and Texas AAUP President 2008-2012, on the grave threat posed by political interference at Texas A&M.

www.pressreader.com/usa/san-anto...

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CODE MAROON at Texas A&M: Protect academic freedom and reject political control Texas A&M is ordering a philosophy professor to remove readings by Plato from his syllabus, per new rules requiring ideological review and approval of course content. This is not academic oversigh...

☎️ Calling all Aggies, sign your name to demand Texas A&M leaders protect academic freedom and reject political control!! 👇👇

alumni.standforcampusfreedom.org/petitions/co...

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Texas A&M claims it has “seamlessly completed” its Spring 2026 course review. That statement is false.

Multiple courses addressing race, gender, and sexuality are still under review with faculty facing pressured to censor well into the semester.

Texans deserve the truth, not spin.

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