House signals readiness to fight Senate over bills to ban tenure, diversity efforts at Texas universities

University of Texas at Austin graduate student Lee Kravchenko participates in a chant during a sit-in for the protection of academic freedom and diversity, equity and inclusion at the Capitol on March 23, 2023. (Credit: Pu Ying Huang/The Texas Tribune)

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Over the past year, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick has been the bull rampaging through higher education's china shop, trying to end faculty tenure, stop the teaching of critical race theory and vanquish university offices for diversity, equity and inclusion.