The University of Texas System’s governing board advanced a draft policy that would require faculty to disclose course topics, stick to syllabi and avoid material deemed “not germane” to a course. The proposal frames the rules as principles of “academic integrity” and directs campuses to seek curricular balance. Board language calls for presenting “differing views” on disputed subjects and asks institutions to design core requirements that let students meet them without exposure to unnecessary controversial topics. The Texas conference of the AAUP called the draft “sweeping, vague” and urged the regents to reject it. Faculty and academic groups say the proposal risks chilling classroom discussion and creating enforcement headaches; administrators must now weigh implementation, complaint procedures and the legal exposure that will follow any campus actions based on the new guidelines.