A memo from UNT’s compliance office alleges that an association whose meeting faculty members requested conference funding to attend violates anti-DEI provisions of the Texas Education Code.
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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.
