‘Big Brother’ looms large as Texas A&M cancels ethics course

Another course at America’s Texas A&M University has fallen foul of state policy on teaching gender, race and sexual orientation – this time a...

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Texas A&M is banning Plato, citing his “gender ideology.”

Today, Texas A&M resumes classes for the spring semester—but a number of canonized texts will not be welcomed back to school. The public research university has lately been caught in the crossf…

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@georgetakei

#TexasAandM academic cred of the school will be in the toilet and the cost will NOT go down, I bet
#woke #education

Texas A&M banishes Plato. https://www.texastribune.org/2026/01/07/texas-am-race-gender-courses/

Texas A&M philosophy professor ordered to remove Plato reading or be reassigned

Professor Peterson said the discussion about love and biological sexes from Plato’s Symposium is what the administration red-flagged.

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The USA, where I guess they figure Plato didn't go far enough in just banning poets.

So, they ban Plato, kill poets.

#ReneeNicoleGood #MInneapolis #TexasAandM #Plato #ICE

https://dailynous.com/2026/01/06/texas-am-bans-plato/

https://poets.org/2020-on-learning-to-dissect-fetal-pigs

‘Outlander’ author donates literary archive to Texas A&M

"Cushing Memorial Library and Archives will house series notes, memorabilia and evolution of Diana Gabaldon’s globally celebrated storytelling."

https://stories.tamu.edu/news/2025/11/20/outlander-author-donates-literary-archive-to-texas-am/

#TexasAandM #Library #Libraries #archives #Cushing #Outlander

‘Outlander’ author donates literary archive to Texas A&M

Cushing Memorial Library and Archives will house series notes, memorabilia and evolution of Diana Gabaldon’s globally celebrated storytelling.

"How a secret recording of a gender identity lecture upended Texas A&M"

"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."

https://www.texastribune.org/2025/09/19/texas-a-m-welsh-firing-professor-gender-mccoul/

#HigherEd #HigherEducation #TexasAandM #Universites #Academia #Texas #GenderIdentity #LGBT

How a secret recording of a gender identity lecture upended Texas A&M

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.

The Texas Tribune
Texas A&M President to Step Down After Controversy Over ‘Gender Ideology’

The university had been roiled after a student filmed herself arguing with the instructor of a children’s literature course that recognized more than two genders.

The New York Times

Texas conservatives are busy destroying academic freedom in higher education.

The failure of the university's president to stand up for the faculty member under attack and for the principle of academic freedom is appalling.

https://www.kbtx.com/2025/09/10/texas-am-professor-fired-after-video-showing-clash-over-course-curriculum/

#USHigherEducation #Universities #TexasAAndM #AcademicFreedom #MelissaMcCoul #MarkWelsh #BrianHarrison

Texas A&M professor fired, leaders reassigned amid scrutiny over course curriculum

Texas A&M President Mark A. Welsh has fired English Professor Melissa McCoul after a video surfaced Monday showing a clash between a student and Professor McCoul over curriculum in a children’s literature course.

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