A Texas McCombs Professor Is At The Center Of A New Battle In The Culture War
Richard Lowery, a finance professor at Texas-Austin McCombs, is suing the Texas A&M University system over a new fellowship program that he says discriminates against White and Asian-American faculty candidates. Salem Center photo
A finance professor at the University of Texas McCombs School of Business is suing a major state university system over its hiring policies in a case that seems like it was designed in a think-tank for national attention because it was.
Richard Lowery, a finance professor at McCombs, says the Texas A&M University System is discriminating against White and Asian-American teaching candidates through its new faculty fellowship program for African Americans, Hispanic and Latino Americans, Native Americans, Alaskan Natives, and Native Hawaiians. Lowery, who is White, says the fellowship violates federal law.
The legal broadside has garnered heavy media attention in part because it is supported by a group founded by Stephen Miller, former speechwriter and adviser for President Donald Trump and widely acknowledged architect of the Trump administrations immigration policies. Miller is well-known to the world of graduate business education as the prime mover behind the Trump administrations restrictions of the H-1B visa program, which has long been viewed by B-schools as vital to the pipeline of talent coming to the U.S.
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