diff --git a/jupyterhub/orm.py b/jupyterhub/orm.py
index 1e2c21a5..3293767c 100644
--- a/jupyterhub/orm.py
+++ b/jupyterhub/orm.py
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ import alembic.command
 from alembic.script import ScriptDirectory
 from tornado.log import app_log
 
-from sqlalchemy.types import TypeDecorator, TEXT, LargeBinary
+from sqlalchemy.types import TypeDecorator, Text, LargeBinary
 from sqlalchemy import (
     create_engine, event, exc, inspect, or_, select,
     Column, Integer, ForeignKey, Unicode, Boolean,