Email from Tarrant County Republican Party The University has yet to put out any statement on Emily Farris's actions   Contribute Today to Defeat Leftism! TCU Refuses to Fire Pro-Assassination Professors Following the incredibly sad news of the assassination of Charlie Kirk, we are also saddened to have to share this news with you about the school we love so much. Despite massive and widespread pressure to fire professors celebrating and mocking the assassination of Charlie Kirk, with Professor Emily Farris chief among them, TCU has not only refused to fire Farris, but has refused to even issue a statement on the matter. TCU is an outlier on this front. Schools both in Texas and around the nation have fired professors or expelled students for mocking and celebrating Charlie's assassination. Baylor, Texas A&M, Texas State, and Texas Tech have all taken action. Even outside of Texas, some universities that initially resisted against massive pressure have caved and dealt with the problem. Kansas State and Clemson stand out as examples. There are nearly no examples across the country where universities have failed to act, other than TCU. This is not the only area in which TCU is shunning the traditional values it was founded on and embracing leftism. When it comes to overt racism in the form of DEI, TCU has infused it into all aspects of the school. And let's not forget just some of the radical LGBTQ courses they offer. Here are just a few: CRES 20003 Gateway Seminar in Critical Race Theory WGST 30203 Social Justice Organizing & Activism WGST 50103 Feminist/Queer Inquiry STCO 26102 Diversity CRES 30803 TCU Justice Journey CRES 32103 Black Life and Resistance WGST 30403 Transnational Gender & Sexuality SOWO 61823 Diversity and Social Justice EDUC 50003 Diversity in American Education WGST 30193 Queer Theories Earlier this year, TCU General Counsel Lee Tyner spoke at a faculty town hall, telling professors that the school would not be ending DEI in response to the Trump Administration's Executive Order, but would rather be moving people around and renaming positions. You can find the full audio here. If you had any doubts that Tyner was serious about hiding their DEI program rather than getting rid of it, you can rest assured. Here's a spreadsheet documenting office and personnel moves. You can see that the DEI officers have simply been relocated and given new titles. TCU's "Center for Connection Culture" or CCC, is the renamed DEI Office mentioned by TCU's General Counsel Lee Tyner. They are full steam ahead on the DEI program. You can see here that the CCC has instituted a NEW certificate program called "Responsible for Inclusion and Sustaining Excellence," or RISE. Their DEI program is still awarding DEI certificates to this day! While TCU is not a state school and is not funded by the State of Texas, they do receive money from the federal government. We are issuing a letter to Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon calling for a Civil Rights investigation into the school for refusing to follow President Trump's Executive Order ending DEI for universities receiving federal dollars. The school still advertises pro-trans private counseling on its LGBTQ resources page. As we have said many times, we love TCU and want it to have the best chance to succeed, grow, and attract the kind of students who are most likely to become successful in their lives and careers after they graduate. Said another way, they can become donors. We have reported on much of this in the past, but TCU refuses to address it. To remind you of some of our past reports, we are including a comprehensive overview of TCU's leftist problem below. The only way they will budge is if the public starts putting the pressure on them. You can make a difference. TCU Caught Hiding DEI from the Trump Administration (4/12/25) After TCU's Board of Trustees Spring 2025 meeting, the news reported that the university has ended its DEI Department in addition to taking down the LGBTQ pages that we reported on last week. On its face, this seems like a win. TCU may appear to have reversed course. In reality, their top officials have admitted they're full steam ahead and are merely hiding DEI from the Trump administration to avoid the consequences. We have the receipts. The liberal rag Fort Worth Star-Telegram is reporting that TCU has ended diversity and inclusion and LGBT ideology, trying to frame the school as caving to conservatives (TCGOP received credit for this). The purpose of this is to convince you - and the Trump Administration - that the school has corrected course and will not require funding revocation from the federal government. TCU is currently slated to receive around $40 million from the federal government in 2025. But in the administration's own words - especially Chief "Inclusion" Officer Jonathan Benjamin-Alvarado - the DEI program is not being shut down, but instead being rolled into the Center for Connection Culture so that "their activities can continue and they can be protected." It should be noted that Alvarado gave a faculty-only presentation after Trump's election stating that DEI must become part of TCU's DNA. According to Alvarado, this was not an administrative decision, but rather a proactive measure from the DEI Department to protect themselves from federal scrutiny. This makes sense given that, per the Star-Telegram, no DEI faculty were fired when the department was "shut down." Apart from Alvarado's own words, TCU's website directly confirms this to be the case. You can find a TCU org chart on their website HERE, which shows the names and positions of the officers within their DEI department (the chart was posted late last year). Every person from the DEI Department is now listed as an employee for the "Center for Connection Culture," including Alvarado (Chief Inclusion Officer), Aisha Torrey-Sawyer (Diversity and Inclusion Director), Vincent Perez (Diversity and Inclusion Assistant Director), and Brenda Fisher (Diversity and Inclusion Executive Assistant). Every one of them is now listed with the exact same position within the Connection Culture Center, found HERE. TCU General Counsel Lee Tyner also gave a lengthy presentation recently on Trump's executive orders and the "risk" they pose to the school. He says that the orders are "scary" and will create a chilling effect on the university's activities. Tyner claims that after Trump's inauguration, the administration got together to determine the "risk" to TCU, specifically to determine "how do we achieve our goals if we can't use race?" Tyner brings up a direct threat to the school's funding. He notes that in the coming weeks, every federal agency is required to give the Trump administration a list of nine entities to investigate for practicing DEI and affirmative action (interesting that the DEI department was re-named right now). He says that for the DoE to select a university, the university must have an endowment larger than $1 billion. TCU is one of only 130 schools in the nation that meet this criterion. If TCU had in earnest removed their DEI and LGBT programs and corrected course, we would hav been very happy and would have praised them for it. Instead, they've chosen to double down and try to hide their wrongdoing. The Trump Administration, and in particular the DoE, must launch an investigation into TCU (as they've done for UNT and Rice University) to root out DEI and affirmative action. TCU Harboring Radical Left/Anti-Semitic Professors (5/18/24) We're going to start this week by turning our attention to TCU. To be clear, there are many good people on the Board of Trustees, and they likely have no clue about many of the radical people and policies at the school. With this reporting, we don't mean to attack the Trustees, but rather to bring to light what is happening at this important Tarrant County institution in hopes that the Trustees and others involved with the school will be inspired to make a change at TCU. We begin by looking at the Women and Gender Studies Department (WGST). This department has an "Abortion Stories" page on its website promoting abortion. That page is published by Nino Testa, the infamous drag queen who teaches a drag class at the university. The Women & Gender Studies section of TCU's website encourages students to watch videos of the "Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence," infamous for performing blasphemous mockeries of Christianity. Not a good look for a Christian school! You can click here to see all the disturbing drag-themed lessons promoted by TCU, but discretion is advised, as some of the names are particularly vulgar and degrading to women. The Department's Twitter profile also promotes "Abortion Finder" and posts collaborative events with "Texas Equal Access Fund" which pays for Texans to get abortions out of state. You may have guessed that the professors associated with this Women & Gender Studies Department are less than morally upright. Would you have guessed that many of them are also openly anti-semitic? Let's talk about that. Let's begin with Dr. Randa Tawil. You'll find that on her Twitter she likes tweets about "ending Zionism" and mocking Jews for "being afraid of anti-semitic protests." That's not great. But she actually goes much further. In this reply to VP Kamala Harris, Dr. Tawil openly denies the sexual assault of the October 7th victims. Another professor, Dr. Hadi Hosainy, is not only a History professor associated with WGST, but is also an undergraduate advisor according to TCU's website. This is interesting, considering his engagements on Twitter. Dr. Hosainy has liked tweets: Calling Holocaust Remembrance a "pity party" Blaming the October 7th murders on Israel's "brutal and violent occupation" Saying "They sure have a thing for r**ing people in Israel." Saying anyone that calls Hamas' attack on Israel 'unprovoked' is mind-boggling. What about Professor Jason Helms of the English Department? He is known for commenting under Biden's Twitter posts: "Stop the f***ing genocide" in reference to Israel's fight against Hamas. He also retweeted a post claiming that violent means of resistance to colonizers is legitimate. He has also liked tweets: Accusing the Israeli Defense Force of genocide. Saying "there is something...about Zionist entitlement around property that extends to children." This one plays into the anti-semitic conspiracy that Jews run pedophile rings. Saying there is "no empathy in my body for Zionists" Using the anti-semitic phrase "Jewish Question," a phrase used by the Nazis as a euphemism for the Holocaust. We hope that TCU will take the steps necessary to reverse its decline into radicalism. Expect more TCU news in the coming months. TCU Promotes Anti-White Sentiment (8/24/24) We've caught TCU mocking white people, suggesting that microaggressions are "violence" to students, trying to remove the word "Christmas" from class, and other forms of anti-white discrimination. If you've followed our reporting for some time, you're aware of the many radicals working to destroy what should be a prestigious Fort Worth institution. As we've repeatedly said, TCU is important to us and we know there are many great people still there. What we are about to tell you will sound very critical of the school. But we are only critiquing the radical leftists working to undermine the prestige of the school and destroy its reputation because we care about TCU, and want to see it great again. The focus of this story is Ann Tasby, Director of TCU's Office of Inclusive Excellence, in Neeley Business School. Tasby's job at the university is to lower standards both at TCU and the large businesses to which the school funnels prospective employees by implementing radical DEI anywhere she can. More on that shortly. Speaking of lowering standards, we should talk a little bit about Tasby's history before we get into what Tasby is doing to harm the great reputation of TCU. To start, we should note that Tasby does not have a Doctorate degree like the many professors on which she forces DEI policy. She has a Bachelor's and Master's degree from DeVry University. She began teaching Accounting classes at TCU around 2017, quickly developing a reputation among students for being a less-than-adequate professor and for her condescending attitude, looking down on students. It appears that, once this became obvious, she took a job as a DEI apparachik, with the goal of bringing DEI into Neeley Business School. What exactly has Tasby done to Neeley Business School? To start, she is responsible for teaching Mandatory Microaggression training to both professors and graduate students - though in one such training, she notes that students can receive the training also. In these trainings, her condescending attitude is turned against white people. In this clip, she can be heard using a mocking imitation of white Southerners, which she later defends. During the training, her colleague - another TCU professor - remarks that it an "environmental microaggression" that many of the buildings on campus are named after "upper-class, white, heterosexual males." At the beginning of the training, Tasby and her colleague play a clip that compares white people to "mosquitoes" that can "carry diseases" and even kill people. This is, implicitly, genocidal language about white people being taught at TCU. Perhaps some alumni might be less than pleased to know their donations are funding professors who outright express hatred for them. Tasby's DEI Office, which she uses to force these trainings on Business faculty and graduate students, is in the Business School. The DEI initiative in the Business School includes selecting students for prestigious opportunities (with some of the nation's top companies) by race. As you can see here, the mentorship program is sponsored by JPMorgan Chase. You may recall our story uncovering that a Vice President of JPMorgan, moonlighting as a radical leftist activist, had a habit of using racial slurs on the internet. The application for the program, found here, requires students to list their race on the application. During the training, Tasby notes that the materials, including the slideshow, were given to her by TCU's Office of Diversity and Inclusion, who purchased it from an outside group. What exactly does TCU's DEI Office do? Well, they have a toolkit that pressures professors into removing the word "Christmas" from their classes. The DEI office will also give you $2500 for "creative projects" that support diversity. This may remind you of when we uncovered the DEI Bribes being given to professors. You can refresh yourself on that here. When TCU's DEI Office isn't funding radical leftist programs on campus and bribing professors into supporting DEI, they also find time to attack America's founding. You may recall this week the DNC's land acknowledgment stunt - well, TCU beat them to it. The DEI office has created a "land acknowledgment" found here, that is required "in print, online, and verbally at all major official TCU events (such as Convocation and Commencement), programs (such as DEI activities and special lectures), and other appropriate forums (syllabi, web pages, job descriptions and searches, student and employee orientations, etc.)." It's curious that the land acknowledgment isn't included in fundraising calls to alumni. In case that wasn't enough, they've even created a guide for professors on how to teach the land acknowledgment in classes. You too can learn how to implement anti-white hatred in everything from history to business, fine arts, and Women and Gender Studies. It seems as though everywhere we look, anti-white sentiment has become deeply embedded in TCU. Yes, there are still great alumni, professors, and students at the school. But it cannot be understated how much the work DEI hires have already done (and how much they will continue to do if they aren't stopped) will hurt the prestige of such an important TCU institution. We will not stand for this, and we hope you won't either. TCU Giving Out DEI Bribes (7/13/24) TCU is rebranding DEI, bribing professors to put DEI into their classes, and students are receiving full-ride scholarships for supporting DEI. The new term for DEI at TCU is "FSC." FSC stands for "Finding Ourselves in Community." How nice. According to TCU's website, the program will be in place for the next five years at least. How do we know this is DEI in disguise? To start, they took the DEI acronym, put it into the curriculum, and just changed the name. The school says that the new "FSC" plan will be implemented into the Core Curriculum classes and as many other classes as possible. They are even bribing professors with $2,000 to bring the DEI curriculum into classes! The FAQ for the new program suggests that DEI should be added specifically to lower-level classes - presumably so they can indoctrinate students at a younger age. Professors are required to attend workshops to receive the money. What does the school expect professors to learn from these new "FSC" workshops? In this explainer, they expressly say that professors should "highlight resources for students and faculty to support further professional development in DEI." Professional development? It sounds like the school is now paying professors to recruit students into leftwing activism. As we keep reporting on the rampant leftism at TCU, it appears things are getting worse. The 5 year program has a leadership team, listed here. A brief look at the list will confirm that this is in fact a DEI program. The list includes the University "Chief Inclusion Officer," and also the Director of the "Office of Diversity and Inclusion," following a new trend of dropping the "E" in DEI. For the next 5 years, these are the people paying off professors to implement DEI into their classes and indoctrinate students. It may seem strange that they are bribing faculty into bringing DEI into their classes, especially when you look into their DEI hiring initiatives - it's surprising at this point that they even need to incentivize professors, given their commitment to diversity hiring. Here are some of those initiatives. TCU has a "Shared-Cost Hiring Initiative" that pays to recruit "underrepresented faculty" to "achieve greater diversity in our professorial ranks." The Provost Office also advertises a "DEI Scholar Fellowship," which pays for scholars to do DEI work for up to two years. In addition to increasing the number of DEI hires among TCU faculty, they have also decided that non-DEI professors will have to share the work of DEI faculty. On this page, they lay out their "Faculty Workload Equity Model." The idea behind it is that there is "inequity" even among the amount of work professors do and that the school needs to make professors share the workload. In a direct nod to the low quality of DEI scholarship, the program claims to focus on "quantity rather than quality." Surely parents of TCU students would be upset to know that a school that costs nearly $300,000 for a 4-year degree is lowering its emphasis on "quality" in professors' work. Speaking of the absurd $300,000 price tag for a TCU education - the school is not only paying off professors to support its radical political program. TCU offers a STEM Scholarship Program, which sounds harmless enough. On their website, however, they admit that one of the criteria to apply for the program is "a personal commitment to diversity and inclusion." What does this scholarship offer? Nothing more than a full-ride scholarship that covers four years of tuition. TCU is paying off students to support DEI at the cost of $300,000 per person. The scholarship also includes a 4-week summer "enrichment" experience, as well as "educational travel and study abroad." Someone should tell the faculty they're getting a raw deal. Given the lowering of standards and TCU's new requirement that classes teach DEI, it's no surprise that they've made the SAT and ACT optional for admissions. TCU's DEI and Affirmative Action Problem (3/29/25) Over the last year, we’ve done many pieces of leftism and DEI at TCU, and it runs deep. Now, with stories stretching back over a year, and with the Trump administration cracking down on DEI and Affirmative Action at universities, we thought we should bring you new information on the subject, and revisit our old information for the new readers. Before we begin, we want to make it clear that we love TCU. We want nothing but success. But we want a school that reflects and honors the traditional Christian background. Last year we wrote many exposés on the DEI at TCU. However, one Trustee asked us to lay off and give them time to correct what they acknowledge is a problem. We agreed and even met with the soon to be Chancellor, Daniel Pullin. We also believe that unless the public knows about it, the institution is less likely to correct it. This special TCU edition will serve as a comprehensive resource for everything DEI and leftist-related we’ve uncovered at TCU to date. We hope that the Trump Administration picks it up, and forces the university to ditch the DEI. It should be noted that the Administration has already announced investigations into UNT and Rice University for these same issues. To start: we’ve uncovered a faculty hiring checklist used by TCU Academic Affairs to govern the hiring process for professors and other employees. It mentions DEI over a dozen times. In fact, it gives the school’s DEI officers (yes, TCU has DEI officers) veto power over potential hires! Here’s a summary of all the ways TCU’s DEI officers get to control the hiring process: When the search begins, the search committee must include a Diversity Advocate, who gets to identify candidates. Candidates are required to prove a “demonstrated commitment to diversity and inclusion.” The Search Committee is required to confer with the Diversity Advocate to create a Recruitment Plan. Professors are expected to “engage their professional networks” to find DEI candidates. Interview questions for the candidates requires approval by the Diversity Advocate. Questions must “elicit experiences” with and commitment to DEI.” Assessment rubrics to evaluate the candidates also require approval by the Diversity Advocate. If the search is inconclusive, the Hiring Manager must work with the Diversity Advocate to “encourage a more qualified, diverse candidate pool.” But there’s more. On November 21, 2024, TCU’s “Chief Inclusion Officer” Jonathan Benjamin-Alvarado presented the school’s commitment to DEI and Affirmative Action in a faculty-staff meeting. The purpose of the talk was to ensure that professors follow the party line on DEI - while TCU’s administration has changed the language due to state and federal pressure, Inclusion Officer Jonathan made it very clear that DEI and affirmative action would not be going away. According to him, red states’ anti-DEI efforts have caused a problem for the school by “criminalizing” DEI language, and faculty need to be prepared to deal with it. He acknowledges that many are souring on the subject, and to fight back, the school must ensure that DEI is not an “appendage,” but rather “woven into the institutional DNA.” It’s clear that this is the case. He is clear that while “TCU does not expressly promulgate a policy for diversity, equity, and inclusion per se” the school uses the phrase “ inclusive excellence” to avoid the DEI phrase. One slide after making the assertion, Jonathan assures faculty that “inclusive excellence is designed to infuse diversity and inclusion efforts” into the university. He closed out his presentation with a call for TCU to “own the narrative and be willing to defend it.” If it wasn’t clear enough that TCU was doubling down on DEI and affirmative action, a survey of their website confirms it. Under the Chancellor’s Office, there is not only one but two, DEI committees. One committee, the “Compliance and Affirmative Action Committee,” consults the Chief Compliance Officer and Affirmative Action Officer to ensure the school continues its mission of affirmative action despite the requirements of the Supreme Court and Trump Administration. An employee from the school’s Institutional Equity program is included in committee membership. Also listed under the Chancellor’s page is the “Inclusive Excellence Advisory Council” (read, DEI Advisory Council, per the administration’s own words). The purpose of the committee is to monitor “all existing and future initiatives regarding diversity, equity, and inclusiveness on campus” and to make recommendations to the Chancellor on future initiatives, priorities, and practices. Committee membership includes the school’s Chief Inclusion Officer, Academic Affairs DEI Advocate, and Director of Diversity and Inclusion. They’re not backing away from DEI. They’re doubling down. The website for the Chancellor’s Office says that the Chancellor “designates two staff members to serve as the University’s Affirmative Action Officer and the deputy.” The DEI problem exists downstream of the administration as well. The Department of Strategic Communications, for example, explicitly exists as a training ground for DEI activists. One required class within the department is simply called “Diversity,” with the subtitle “Creating Revolution: the Strategic Communication of Social Change.” The final assignment for the class is to create an effective DEI political activism campaign. Students are required to score each other on fellow classmates’ use of effective and appropriate DEI. The Department even includes all class syllabi a lengthy quote explicitly demonstrating its commitment to DEI. Student learning outcomes for the department include “respecting diversity in all its forms.” Many similar classes to the “diversity” leftist activism class, including “Social Justice Organizing and Activism” can be found on the Strategic Communication Department’s website. These policies and actions seem to run directly against Trump’s order regarding university DEI policies, and even more concerning, the Supreme Court’s ruling against Affirmative Action. TCU's Pro-Abortion and Pro-Trans Policies (4/5/25) TCU Supports Abortion Departments within TCU have official partnerships with abortion advocacy groups, with the school's logo displayed next to their partners. You can see one example HERE. We've already mentioned that the department in this example, the Women and Gender Studies (WGST) Department, has used its social media to promote the Abortion Finder tool, a website that assists women in getting an abortion. WGST even hosted a campus event with the abortion advocacy group Texas Equal Access Fund, the topic of which was the "evils" of crisis pregnancy clinics and how to fight against pro-life legislation. In February of this year, one campus group, "Advocates for Reproductive Equality," hosted an event called "Planned Parenthood 101." The event included a "Sex Ed Loteria" game and included a talk "about services offered by Planned Parenthood, and how to get involved with reproductive advocacy." The school's health clinic page tells students that the school will provide the abortifacient drug, Plan B, known for harming the women who take it, to both students above and under 18 years old, and will keep their parents from finding out. According to their website, prescriptions are available "for students ages 17 and younger, no prescription is necessary for women over age 18." TCU's English Department has documents still available on its website advertising student internships with Planned Parenthood (yes, the English Department). Professors can even hold leadership positions within abortion advocacy and abortion-providing organizations and remain in the school's good graces. Dr. Lynn Jackson is a WGST affiliate. In the College of Nursing and Health Sciences, she is the Director of Field Education and Assistant Dean for Strategic Initiatives. Her areas of focus include "reproductive justice and abortion." A look at her CV proves this to be an understatement. Here's an overview of her abortion-related roles: President, National Network of Abortion Funds Board of Directors Vice President, National Network of Abortion Funds Board of Directors Texas Equal Access Fund Board of Directors Member Vice President, Texas Equal Access Fund Board of Directors Member, Planned Parenthood Don't forget, as we've reported in the past, that the WGST Department has officially engaged in fundraising activities for their university partner, the Texas Equal Access Fund. TCU Supports Transgender Ideology TCU has made clear that they not only are supportive of transgenderism but will actively help students accomplish transitions. The Health Clinic's "LGBTQ Sexual Health" page ensures the LGBTQs that identifying information will not be included on their student account. It even recommends that they pay with a card or cash to avoid services or prescriptions showing up on their student account. Health Center and Counseling Center resources are clear that they will (anonymously) offer students contraceptive counseling as well as referrals for both "transgender care" and gender-affirming care. Brown-Lupton Health Center advertises the following "LGBTQ+ Resources" as available to students: gender marker changes, legal name change resources, and gender-affirming care." Again, the school is clear that every one of these services can be hidden from parents. They even provide an all-gender bathroom map for transgenders to locate bathrooms of their choice. Transgender students are even offered an exclusive resume and job search resource that counsels them on how to sue companies that question their "gender identity." Sexual Morality As a Christian school, you may hope that TCU promotes a Christian sexual ethic. Maybe your standards are lower than that, and you at the very least hope that they would avoid teaching sexual ethics that go directly against Christian teaching. Unfortunately, you would be wrong. TCU's campus recreation page includes a "sexual responsibility" page which notes that "College is a place where many students choose to explore their sexuality" and offers tips on how to do just that. The page encourages students to use protection "unless in a long-term, monogamous relationship with a partner who has been confirmed STD-free." Note that nothing about marriage is included. The school's website goes further, telling students that "everyone makes a personal decision about when they are ready to have sex; some relationships are casual and short-term while others are long-term." TCU goes further to say that "the possibilities are endless, so have fun with it!" You may remember our report from last week that WGST affiliate and Christian Ethics professor Santiago Pinon even invited a "sexologist" to advocate for non-monogamy and to discuss whether the man or the woman should pay for the abortifacient and dangerous drug, Plan B. Not only is TCU not promoting Christian morality here or even avoiding the subject altogether. Instead, they're fully committing to an anti-Christian morality. Texas Christian University will not only promote promiscuity, not only will they actively help students engage in it, but they will also hide it from the parents who largely sent their children to TCU specifically to get away from that environment. Share The Roundup with Friends! Thank you for reading The Roundup, the #1 newsletter for conservatives in Tarrant County. If the Roundup has been valuable for you, please consider sharing it with friends! You can share the Roundup on Facebook, X (Twitter), or Email using the buttons below. 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