Texas A&M has been leaning way too far to the left for some time now. This is said and written by a lifelong Aggie, who graduated from there almost 10 years ago. The school has been subject of a massive DEI hiring scandal, having financial ties to Qatar, and other business ties to Communist China. All of it being efforts on the administration's part to 'liberalize' the school.
Now, after Governor Greg Abbott banned public universities from pushing Diversity, Equity and Inclusion programs, A&M's faculty senate is finding new ways around it. They are now trying to circumvent the Texas Public Information Act, which allows citizens to request public records from the school. They claim that inquiries are 'harassing and threatening' to their young teachers.
Conservative activist Christian Collins says this comes just after Abbott approved another $119 billion in spending money.
"If they are going to accept public funding from Texas citizens...then people have a right to know under the Public Information Act what the funding is being utilized for...and any attempt to disembowel this essential tool is both alarming, and disturbing," says Collins.
A&M is upset over a series of requests from the American Accountability Foundation, a non -partisan watchdog group, who wanted to learn more of their DEI initiatives at the medical school. The practices of such a thing were banned by Senate Bill 17 back at the start of the year.
All of this problem starts with the leadership.
"It is a trickledown effect...you are only as good as your leaders...if they support this, then you end up here," he says. "It is important to hire people who represent the values of Texans...and that is just not happening at A&M."
Even more concerning, it is just part of more efforts to push the ridiculous Leftist narratives on kids.
"The students coming out of these universities are going to be spewing this ideology themselves and end up in places of authority in our country," he says. "They are deconstructing everything they learn at home while at these universities."
Collins says A&M might not be recognizable not just in the next 10 year, but eve in the next three to five years.