Texas Christian University is facing criticism from a TCU alumnus and business owner over what he calls the school’s history of “woke” policies.
As previously reported by The Dallas Express, the university denied a request to host a Turning Point USA event featuring detransitioner Chloe Cole, sparking backlash from elected officials and renewing debate over free speech on campus.
A TCU alumnus is now criticizing the university’s leadership, accusing it of abandoning its Christian foundations and embracing “anti-Christian, anti-conservative ideologies.”
“I am Preston Campbell, a TCU alumnus of 2019. I am writing to express concern and disappointment at the direction my alma mater has taken in regard to the adoption of anti-Christian, anti-conservative ideologies,” Campbell wrote in a letter sent to TCU officials and shared with The Dallas Express.
Campbell, a gay conservative business owner and graduate of TCU’s School of Fine Arts, said he chose the university expecting a “conservative, traditional, God-fearing environment.”
He accused the school of “celebrating sin and divisiveness,” arguing that it now encroaches on students’ God-given rights to freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, freedom of thought, and the sacred truth that all of us are made equally in the image of God.
Campbell cited examples from his time at TCU, alleging that professors promoted socialism and expressed political bias against conservatives. He said one professor “explicitly introduced himself on the first day of class as a socialist,” and a department director “preached to the point of his own tears” the morning after the 2016 presidential election.
He also alleged that the university mishandled a sexual assault case involving an individual he described as a “mentally deranged, ‘transgender,’ autogynephile man,” saying TCU “found [him] not at fault.”
This is not the only time TCU faced similar controversy.
As previously reported by The Dallas Express, a former TCU student filed a federal lawsuit seeking $100 million in damages, alleging the university mishandled her report of being raped by another student in October 2024. The anonymous plaintiff, identified as Emily Doe, claims TCU’s Title IX office took no action until she obtained legal counsel and then imposed only minimal punishment on the alleged perpetrator.
“Now, TCU has cancelled the speaking event of a de-transitioner, Chloe Cole, who tries to warn young people of the dangers associated with child-abuse-ridden trans ideology,” Campbell wrote. “All while my alma mater advertises their own ‘Pride Month’ in October.”
He referred to TCU as “Texas Creedless University,” saying it “silences the rational side of the aisle while publicly backing the deranged side — the dangerous side.”
“I am now genuinely embarrassed to be an alumnus of Texas Creedless University,” Campbell continued. “Somewhere around $200,000 later, I now consider my earned degree a symbol of willful ignorance and one of my gravest mistakes thus far in life.”
Campbell said he will withhold donations from the university and warned that TCU risks alienating alumni who have “the capability to donate.”
The Dallas Express reached out to Texas Christian University for comment but did not receive a response.