Texas A&M University Cancelling Women and Gender Studies Program
“University officials tried to reassure the campus that the impacts of the new policy would be minimal”
What a shame. Of course, there are still thousands of other schools offering these programs.
The Associated Press reports:
Texas A&M University to end women’s studies due to new policy on race and gender topics
Texas A&M University is ending its women’s and gender studies program, changing the syllabuses of hundreds of courses and canceling six classes as part of a new policy that limits how professors can discuss some race and gender topics, school officials announced Friday.
The changes to and cancellation of courses comes months after a viral video of a student confronting an instructor over her lessons threw Texas A&M, one of the largest universities in the country, into upheaval.
University officials tried to reassure the campus that the impacts of the new policy would be minimal, affecting only a small portion of the classes being offered and that class cancellations wouldn’t create any obstacles preventing students from staying on course to graduate.
“Strong oversight and standards protect academic integrity and restore public trust, guaranteeing that a degree from Texas A&M means something to our students and the people who will hire them,” Interim President Tommy Williams said in a news release. “That has been our focus through this process and will remain our focus as we move forward.”
But faculty and students, hundreds of whom gathered on campus Thursday evening to protest the changes being made under the new policy, have accused Texas A&M of infringing on academic and student freedom.
“They have reduced this marketplace of ideas to now emphasizing or promoting a certain view when it comes to race, gender, and sexuality. And that view is quite literally erasing the experiences of people of color, the LGBTQ+ community,” said Leonard Bright, president of the American Association of University Professors A&M chapter.
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“They have reduced this marketplace of ideas to now emphasizing or promoting a certain view when it comes to race, gender, and sexuality.”
If they knew anything about economics or capitalism — and it’s clear they don’t know even the first thing — you can’t “reduce a market” by not catering to it. That INCREASES the market. And someone else will arise to serve that market — unless the actual existence of that “market” is such total BS that there’s no profit in it.
I bet I could find some Somali fraudsters who would be super-happy to serve this idiot’s “market.”
Who was fired/laid off/retired/whatever as part of this? If the answer is “no one” then the agenda has merely gone underground.
Personnel is policy. If you do not change the personnel then there is no reason to believe the policy has changed.
I asked an AI about Women’s Study degrees.
No, practically speaking, no jobs outside of academia strictly require a degree in women’s studies (or gender studies/women’s and gender studies) as a mandatory qualification—except for leading or teaching in a university women’s/gender studies department itself.
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