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During the fall 2025 semester, six Texas public university systems instituted sweeping mandatory reviews for any class that included material that could be construed as advocating race and gender ideology. Below is a timeline of the reviews, which will be updated to reflect recent developments:

• September 9: The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents posted a  responding to a . A student surreptitiously recorded an exchange with McCaul about McCaul’s classroom instruction on gender identity, and following significant online outrage and political pressure, Texas A&M fired McCoul on September 9. The same day, the Board of Regents of A&M said that in order to “ensure that what happened this week will not be repeated,” the chancellor of the system should “audit every course and ensure full compliance with all applicable laws.”
• Late September: The University of North Texas system chancellor  system presidents to “conduct an expedited review of their academic courses and programs — including a complete syllabus review” to ensure compliance with federal laws. The University of Texas System, the University of Houston System, and the Texas Woman’s University system also stated that they were conducting similar reviews.
• December 1: The Texas Tech University System issued a memo to faculty members at its member institutions outlining specific ideas that they cannot “promote or otherwise inculcate” while teaching. Those ideas included that “One race or sex is inherently superior to another,” “An individual, by virtue of race or sex, is inherently racist, sexist, or oppressive, consciously or unconsciously,” and “Meritocracy or a strong work ethic are racist, sexist, or constructs of oppression.” Any faculty member whose classroom materials could potentially touch on one of these ideas was required to submit those materials to the Texas Tech Board of Regents for review.
• December 18: The Texas A&M University System outlined  for faculty, stating that “No system academic course will advocate race or gender ideology, or topics related to sexual orientation or gender identity.” After “review of the course and relevant course materials,” some courses may “teach race or gender ideology, or topics related to sexual orientation or gender identity,” but such exceptions will only be granted in “limited circumstances.”
• January 6: Texas A&M University forced philosophy professor Martin Peterson to remove excerpts from the philosopher Plato and other material on race and gender ideology from his philosophy course, or be reassigned to teach a different course.
• January 7:  indicated that approximately 200 courses in Texas A&M’s College of Arts and Sciences could be affected by the university’s review as administrators target discussions of race and gender.