From Inside Higher Ed: 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. In a June 30 memo to Everbach and at least five other journalism professors, university administrators said that funding membership or sponsorship costs for the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, the organization that hosts the conference she plans to attend and present at next month, violates a Texas law banning diversity, equity and inclusion measures at public institutions.
Scheduled for early August in New Orleans, the AEJMC conference has a Jazz & Jambalaya theme, which showcases the “rich histories” and “diverse contributions” of community members, according to the association’s website. The schedule says it will feature “thought-provoking programming, diverse voices and exciting opportunities to learn and connect.” ...
Full story at https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty/academic-freedom/2026/07/09/north-texas-denies-faculty-conference-funding.
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