Just two weeks after a Hays County judge ordered Texas State University (TXST) to reinstate Associate Professor of History Thomas Alter, the university has terminated him once again. Alter’s latest dismissal followed a due process hearing on Monday, October 13, during which administrators upheld his original firing over remarks he made at a virtual September […]
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Yesterday, we reported that Texas State University (TXST) had terminated Thomas Alter, a newly tenured associate professor of history, following remarks he made on a virtual September 7th Socialist Horizon conference. At the time of that publication, we didn’t yet know that a Hays County district judge had already ordered the university to reinstate him […]
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Editor’s Note: Find an update to this article here. Texas State University (TXST) is now at the center of a lawsuit following the dismissal of Thomas Alter, a recently tenured associate professor of history, who alleges that the institution violated his constitutional rights and breached his employment contract. According to local sources, Alter was terminated […]
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Texas State University (TXST) recently held its second annual “Sex in the Dark” event, an anonymous question-and-answer panel that promised to “create a comfortable environment for students to learn and ask questions about sex, sexual health, and relationships.” Hosted by Healthy Cats–Peer Educators and Students Against Violence, the August 27 event began with a resource […]
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Editor’s Note: The following is an article originally published on the College Fix on July 02, 2025. With edits to match Minding the Campus’s style guidelines, it is crossposted here with permission. When I signed up for Professor Michael Whitehawk’s sociology class at Texas State University (TXST), I hoped it would challenge me to look at society in […]
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In Spring 2024, I took a required English course expecting to learn how to write clearly, build arguments, and think critically. Instead, I learned something else: the path to an A ran straight through ideological conformity. The professor—whose name I’ll leave unmentioned out of respect—began every session with a mandatory moment of silence for what […]
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