Lessons from AAUP Advocacy in Texas.

The next day, Texas lieutenant governor Dan Patrick, a regular foe of university faculty, tweeted that he would put a stop to the arrogance of "looney Marxist faculty" by ending tenure at Texas's public universities. I Karma R. Chávez is Bobby and Sherri Patton Professor and Chair in the Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, where she also serves on the executive committee of the AAUP chapter. And a handful of members of the Texas AAUP conference, led by Brian Evans and the late Pat Somers, decided it was time to relaunch the long-dormant AAUP chapter at UT. [Extracted from the article]