Posted on 10/01/2024 8:57:35 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Texas A&M University is discontinuing its LGBTQ+ minor due to low enrollment, following criticism of the program from Republican lawmakers over what they called “liberal indoctrination.”
The Battalion, the school’s student newspaper, reported last week that the university is cutting 14 minors and 38 certificates following an internal review that deemed them “low-producing” programs.
The university slashed programs that awarded “fewer than five degrees per academic year and fewer than 25 degrees in five years.”
The description of the LGBTQ+ minor on the school’s website states that it “prepares students to examine the ways in which gender and sexuality are socially constructed and offers a critical understanding [of] how sexuality and sexual orientation shape gender roles, identities, and social statuses in societies.”
The minor “also examines homophobia and transphobia’s relationship to racism, colonialism, sexism, ableism, classism and other forms of power,” the description states.
“After months of calling for A&M to end this absurd program, I was pleased to learn…they plan to end it. Proud to have helped deliver this victory for Texas taxpayers, who should never be forced to fund liberal indoctrination,” Texas Representative Brian Harrison wrote in a post on X.
“I look forward to further discussions with A&M and will continue fighting to keep taxpayers from funding leftist propaganda that does nothing to strengthen our economy or the workforce of tomorrow,” he told the Daily Caller.
Harrison (pictured) called for the school to discontinue the minor in March to “protect [his] constituents’ tax dollars, as well as the integrity of Texas A&M,” the Battalion reported.
“I asked them to discontinue this minor or provide to me in writing a justification for this minor to be continued. The most charitable way to characterize the response is as a ‘non-response,'” Harrison told the Daily Caller.
Texas Representative Chip Roy also called for the school to be “held accountable” for pushing “radical woke policies” earlier this year.
In contrast, Texas A&M Sociology Professor Mary Campbell said that removing the minor would negatively impact students opportunities and academic freedom.
“The minor is a legitimate area of study that you should be able to study at A&M,” Campbell said.
“If we want to be a high-quality university, that’s how we do it: by providing those opportunities to students,” she said.
“I think we should work very hard to protect academic freedom, the freedom to study any legitimate area of study, which this minor absolutely is,” the professor said.
The school also discontinued the Asian Studies minor, along with certificates in “Diversity and Social Justice,” “Popular Culture,” and “Performing Social Activism,” the student newspaper reported.
However, “courses associated with the deactivated programs will be unaffected,” according to the Battalion.
The full list of deactivated minors and certificates will not be public until Oct. 14 when it “appears before the Faculty Senate.”
Good.
A mime is a terrible thing to waste.
If those speaking out now were there when those programs were established, they’re still accomplices.
The fact that any university offered a minor in such a useless subject area speaks to how pitiful our institutions of higher learning have become.
Aren’t these the guys who prance around in jodhpurs and wave white hankies?
None of the liberal arts crap belongs in Aggie Land.
LBGT “Minors”
In the P. Diddy sense?
It must be impressive to have Gay Studies as your minor on a private sector job resume. The only taker would be Budweiser
It will be replaced with the LGBTQWERTY Master Keyboarding & Advanced Typing Program.
People ACTUALLY took this course of study as a minor?
A&M isn’t out of the woods yet. They still sponsor a “black graduation,” as well as an “LGBTQ+” (the plus stands for pedophilia) graduation. They recently sponsored seminars on “sex play” including fisting.
Our tax dollars are still being wasted.
Stick to the old time basics in education
Diddy says BK is open late
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIV7g_HQXEw
Looks like the Walmart mob riots a few years later.....
(I think by then BK had already been taken over by a French company - but this was the typical stupidity that we were to see in commercials - there was another version of this one but I haven’t found it yet)
It was a hook up class. They should have had a full semester on monkeypox and another on tranny suicide.
EC
They are keeping the Doctorate in “Bikini Inspection.” It generates huge income from the idiots taking out loans to pay for the course. And after they can’t get jobs to pay off the the loans, the loans are then paid off by the taxpayer. “it’s a win win” he said.
What the heck was a program in faggotry doing at an “Agricultural and Mechanical” university in the first place?
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