Jessica Priest | The Texas Tribune
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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.
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Calls for Welsh’s ousting intensified over his handling of a student’s complaints about gender identity discussions in a children’s literature class.
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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.
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An enrollment drop could cost the Texas economy hundreds of millions of dollars, according to the reports.
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The changes are in response to new state laws seeking to limit faculty’s influence and put guardrails on campus demonstrations.
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The Trump administration has said it has revoked the visas of more than 300 international students across the country in the last three weeks.
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The move comes a few weeks after the Texas A&M System issued a similar ban, which is being challenged in court.