Jessica Priest | The Texas Tribune
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With the semester set to begin next week, professors have been directed to alter courses, and some classes have been removed or reassigned from the core curriculum at the College Station campus. -
University officials dispute the faculty council's conclusion. Melissa McCoul lost her job after a video of a classroom debate went viral. -
Advocacy groups say the new state law, presidential executive order and gubernatorial letter Tedd Mitchell cited do not prohibit classroom discussions of particular LGBTQ+ identities. -
Officials have struggled to detail the exact reasons for the A&M professor’s termination, citing a technical issue with her course description. Faculty say the move was politically motivated. -
Calls for Welsh’s ousting intensified over his handling of a student’s complaints about gender identity discussions in a children’s literature class. -
After the video fueled outrage, two college leaders were removed from their administrative roles for approving plans to teach content inconsistent with the course’s published description. -
An enrollment drop could cost the Texas economy hundreds of millions of dollars, according to the reports. -
The changes are in response to new state laws seeking to limit faculty’s influence and put guardrails on campus demonstrations. -
The Trump administration has said it has revoked the visas of more than 300 international students across the country in the last three weeks. -
The move comes a few weeks after the Texas A&M System issued a similar ban, which is being challenged in court.
