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Texas A&M has been in the headlines recently due to its woke curriculum elements being exposed by a student. This has led to the resignation of President Mark Welsh and a surge in state leaders calling for major reform at both A&M and other public colleges across the state.
Not everyone likes the idea of those reforms though. According to a report from the Texas Scorecard, a professors' union, specifically the Texas chapter of the American Association of University Professors, has sent a letter to faculty at A&M, advising them to "resist" any reforms to curriculums or policies.
According to Robert Montoya with the Texas Scorecard, the letter was a "message encouraging faculty at Texas A&M, 'Hey, start slow-walking. Here's how you can resist; here's the tactics you can use to combat this.'"
Montoya exposed some of the details of these resistance tactics, saying, "On the one hand, they're telling them, 'Hey, try and expose anything that your superiors are telling you to do.' While on the other hand, they're also encouraging them to 'hide your own actions, hide your own conversations, create group chats on encrypted platforms like Signal.'"
He also warned that AAUP might not be doing this at just Texas A&M. He said, "I think we all should ask, 'What faculty at all these universities are organizing together and trying to resist these reforms that Texans have cried out for?'"
He says just trying to slow down these reforms isn't going to work because this isn't just a flash-in-the-pan movement that can be waited out. It's a massive grassroots demand for change.