The Texas A&M University System is once again in the crosshairs of Texas conservatives after a massive slate of new tenured professors was approved and exposed as being connected to a number of far-left ideologies like critical race theory and DEI.
According to reporting by The Texas Scorecard, one professor by the name of Chaddrick D. James-Gallaway listed specialties like “Black Feminist Theory,” as well as “Black Geography” and critical race theory.
Another bio, belonging to a professor by the name of Ege Selin Islekel, highlighted her work on “Decolonial Feminism.”
All of this is being called out by State Representative and A&M alumnus Brian Harrison. He has become known for calling out his alma mater for delving into radical left politics. He is now calling out this slate of tenured professors, saying: “It’s outrageous, it’s indefensible, and further proof that the inmates continue to run the asylum in our taxpayer-funded universities.”
He’s blaming all of this on statewide leaders who have failed to remove woke regents from the A&M board. “The governor needs to be asked his opinion on this. This is all happening as a result of decisions made by his appointees,” he said.
We reached out to Texas A&M University about all this, and they provided us with the following statement:
The System and the Board of Regents have drawn a clear line. In December, the Regents took a leadership role across higher education in Texas by establishing policies which prohibited system faculty from engaging in advocacy in the classroom, banned the teaching of race and gender ideology in core curriculum courses and restricted the teaching of race and gender ideology to those non-core courses where the material is critical to the knowledge necessary for a career in relevant fields of study such as medicine or psychology. Further Board action ensured transparency in course offerings by requiring course descriptions and syllabi to accurately reflect course instruction. Faculty may engage in lawful research, including on controversial topics, but classroom instruction is held to different standards. Because students are present, classroom instruction must comply with System and institutional rules designed to ensure students understand course topics clearly before choosing to enroll in a course and are taught course material in an appropriate setting. Tenure review and final decisions are conducted in accordance with the law and are based on the full record as well as whether faculty are meeting their obligations as researchers, scholars, educators, and employees. No violations of law or policy were found during the review process for the faculty granted tenure during the May board meeting. If policies are violated by any member of the faculty regardless of tenure status, there are processes in place to address those violations.