Posted on 07/21/2023 8:57:17 AM PDT by devane617
Texas A&M University said on Friday that its president would retire “immediately” after fallout surrounding political pushback of a new director of its journalism program because of her work promoting diversity, equity and inclusion.
The president, M. Katherine Banks, submitted a letter of retirement late Thursday, the university said in a statement. The announcement came just days after the school’s faculty senate passed a resolution to create a fact-finding committee to look “into the mishandling” of the hiring of Kathleen McElroy, a University of Texas professor and a former editor at The New York Times.
Within weeks of the original offer, the agreement began to unravel. At least one conservative Texas A&M alumni group, the Rudder Association, said it had filed a complaint about Dr. McElroy’s appointment because of her advocacy work. Dr. McElroy told The Times that the terms of her employment had been revised to offer her a one-year contract. She elected to return to her tenured position at the University of Texas.
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Too difficult for me to post a picture of Kathleen McElroy. but the look is there. close cropped hair and all.
“University of Texas professor and a former editor at The New York Times.”
WTF is A&M doing bringing that trash to it’s university. You want to lead? How about training conservative journalist?
Sounds like the allum felt the same way and sent her and A&M president packing on the next train out of town...Or maybe on a rail with tar and feathers. The A&M president stepped in a big pile of pooh.
Let that trash stay at UT with all the other tea sippers.
Be the ones to lead with different ideals on what journalism is, not the cookie cutter commie crap that is being pumped out everywhere else.
DEI aka Losing Agenda.
Steers and Queers.
The A&M President resigned this morning.
That is her strangling whitey in her dreams.
TAMU is hanging on to tradition by the thinnest of threads.
What a horrible looking thing.
I wonder what the Corps membership is now?
I think that is true for most of the entire educational system. Starting from K and beyond to the highest levels.
Resign is prob the PC way to say what happened to her. I bet she’ll have to hire packers to go to her hut to pack stuff. Seriously doubt she could show her face there.
Can someone explain this controversy to me as a non-Aggie? Who are the woke bad guys here, and were they defeated?
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