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The University of Nebraska at Kearney has canceled a transgender training workshop for professors after receiving major backlash — including a strong rebuke from Gov. Jim Pillen.
The voluntary faculty training module was titled “How Can I Move From Supporting to Empowering Trans-spectrum Students?”
The workshop first came to light after a post Monday on X from Libs of TikTok, which stated: “University of Nebraska at Kearney … wants faculty to attend a meeting where they’ll be taught about Empowering Trans Students and creating a DEI-inclusive classroom. This university receives our tax dollars … DEFUND … So sick of this trash.”
Nebraska Public Media reported that the workshop invite “was part of UNK’s Monday Morning Mentor series and referenced a 20-minute mentor program from a separate college in North Carolina aimed at helping professors create a more inclusive classroom.”
Gov. Pillen quote-posted Libs of TikTok’s complaint, stating:
This nonsense is completely irrelevant and destructive to the University of Nebraska’s teaching mission, and out of touch with the values of the state it serves. University leaders must immediately root out this and all other similar programming across the entire system. If the University cannot police its own ranks and rid itself of the woke disease that has degraded so many “elite” higher education institutions, it risks investigations, cuts to its funding, and, most importantly, the loss of the confidence of the people it serves.
On Tuesday, the university announced the module was removed, Nebraska Public Media reported:
UNK said its focus “remains on rigorous academics and student success through effective teaching and creating a welcoming environment for all students.” The university said “the module referenced has been removed,” and noted the content “was from an external professional development series and was not developed internally by UNK.” UNK added, “We have addressed the issue and corrected our review process moving forward.”
In response, Pillen called the university’s decision “good news.”
“I — and others in Nebraska and around the country — will continue to hold our higher education institutions accountable, keeping them true to the law and the values of the people they serve,” the governor stated on X.
“The mission of education in America is not the advancement of woke indoctrination — it’s to grow critical learners and thinkers prepared to become the next generation of leaders and business builders. That’s the mission, and we cannot allow Nebraska institutions to be distracted from it.”
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