Professor Sues the University of Texas for Alleged Threats Over Criticism of Policies

A tenured professor sued the University of Texas at Austin after administrators allegedly made threats against him in the wake of his public criticism of the school’s critical race theory and diversity policies.

Dr. Richard Lowery, an associate professor of finance at the McCombs School of Business at UT-Austin, filed a complaint in federal court this month claiming that the university violated his constitutional right to criticize government officials at Texas’ flagship state university by punishing him for speaking out on controversial subjects.

Lowery has for several years been an outspoken critic of the school’s adoption and promotion of CRT, which he told Fox News Digital last year has “no scientific basis.” He has also roasted the school’s move toward diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies that he said were used to filter out academics who opposed progressive ideology.

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