Marjorie Taylor Greene Sipa USA/CQ Roll Call/AP Banks’ resignation came a few days after the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences tendered his resignation to avoid being “a needless distraction” as the school attempts to repair its tattered reputation. Texas A&M announced on Friday that its president, Katherine Banks, was leaving her position over the controversy. It’s hardly surprising that she chose to remain at her current job.īut the fallout from the DEI controversy didn’t affect just McElroy’s career. News reports said that Texas A&M officials had encountered widespread “upset and rancor” from DEI opponents on campus who expressed consternation over, among other things, her earlier affiliation with The New York Times, where she had worked as an editor for many years.Īs the pressure campaign ramped up, the university administration furiously backpedaled, downgrading the offer to McElroy from a fully tenured professorship to a one-year untenured appointment from which she could have been fired at any time. But her appointment came under attack from opponents on campus, including those who disapproved of McElroy’s work over the years promoting diversity, equity and inclusion. The university initially welcomed McElroy with open arms and held a lavish signing ceremony as they brought her onboard to create a new journalism program. I shuddered when I read recent headlines about a long-tenured University of Texas at Austin professor and former New York Times journalist, Kathleen McElroy, who was disrespected by Texas A&M University officials who offered her a job - and then pulled the rug out from underneath her. And sadly, attacks on programs in academia promoting diversity, equity and inclusion are quickening, too.
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