Texas A&M University president resigns after Black journalist’s hiring at campus unravels

AP ^ | 7/21/23 | JIM VERTUNO

[mcenedo]

Texas A&M University on Friday announced the resignation of its president in the fallout over a Black journalist who said her celebrated hiring at one of the nation’s largest campuses quickly unraveled due to pushback over her past work promoting diversity.

[mcenedo]

According to the university, of its 4,062 faculty members, 2,156, or 53%, are white, and 139, or 3%, are Black. Asians made up 8% of faculty, and Hispanics or Latinos 5%. In fall 2022 student enrollment, 51% were white, 23% were Hispanic, 10% were Asian and 3% were Black.

I'm not sure what the above represents.

Are 31% of the faculty and 13% of the students of an unknown race? Are they of mixed race and the author just failed to note that fact?

Can we see a breakdown of faculty by politcal persuasion?

[butlerweave]

Diversity it’s disaster

[twister881]

diversity = insane anti-white race hatred

[gibsonguy]

AP=BS.

[PAR35]

What about whatever the woke term is this week for Indians (feather, not dot)? Can’t see them making up 31%. Maybe Lizard Aliens from another star system? Folks that self-identify as goats?

[cgbg]

AP = anti-white Agitation and Propaganda

Diversity = anti-white hate.

[lonestar]

Wouldn’t surprise me if John Sharp was the root of it all. Yellow dog Democrat , President of the board of regents.

[Skywise]

“In an interview with NPR in 2021, McElroy said journalists should be pushed to find information from beyond what she called traditional sources that “skewed white patriarchy.”

“We can’t just give people a set of facts anymore,” she said. “I think we know that and we have to tell our students that. This is not about getting two sides of a story or three sides of a story, if one side is illegitimate. I think now you cannot cover education, you cannot cover criminal justice, you can’t cover all of these institutions without realizing how all these institutions were built.”

Absolutely this woman should be nowhere near a school of journalism or even work in the field of journalism or be allowed access to the internet.

[ConservativeInPA]

All of the is over a white female college president failed attempt to hire a racist negro female Marxist to head the journalism school where panty wastes learn to write at a sixth-grade level and ask the five “W’s”. These idiots go into debt amounting to tens of thousands of dollars and then whine that people who work for a living need to pay their student loans.

Completely useless.

[right way right]

Diversity brings division…who woulda thunk it?

[joma89]

Many people now refuse to give their race when asked. I am one of them.

[devane617]

more here:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4169544/posts

[devane617]

...annd this gives me hope that those on the right are waking up and unapologetically pushing back. TA&M wants to produce real journalist not DEI products to carry water for the deranged leftist loonies. No doubt lots of big-money alums spoke up because the President was escorted out within minutes. I bet she needs to hire packers to get her stuff out of town.

[EEGator]

Hispanic isn’t even a race, so double fail.

Maybe 13% are Reptilian.

[mcenedo]

This is not about getting two sides of a story or three sides of a story, if one side is illegitimate.

This is the mantra of the main stream media. Who decides what is "legitimate"?

Is it the same friggin liars who told us the Greene dossier was real, and the Hunter laptop was fake and that there was no way the corona virus was the result of a lab leak?

[devane617]

The remaining unknowns are not playing the game any longer.

[Billthedrill]

Two-thirds into the story we finally find out what the issue was:

“We can’t just give people a set of facts anymore,” she said. “I think we know that and we have to tell our students that. This is not about getting two sides of a story or three sides of a story, if one side is illegitimate.

Yup, judge first and report later is going to be a bit of a problem. Good riddance.

[Oorang]

Thousands of diversity and equity officers have been laid off, and left-wing activists are panicking, WSJ reports

[Bookshelf]

John Sharp (Texas politician) - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sharp_(Texas_politician)
Political party: Democratic
John Spencer Sharp (born July 28, 1950) is an American Democratic politician from Texas, who has served since 2011 as the chancellor of the Texas A&M University System. From 1991 to 1999, he was the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts. From 1979 to 1987, he was a member of both houses of the Texas State Legislature.

[devane617]

That is just plain sad to read. Unless we take back the education system then it’s over for America.