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Texas A&M University marked its hiring of Kathleen McElroy with great fanfare — balloons, a banner and a signing ceremony. But the celebration around McElroy, a Black journalist who spent

A new internal report, conducted by the university system’s office of general counsel, also looked into Texas A&M’s decision to temporarily suspend a respected opioids expert after she was accused of criticizing Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick in a lecture.

Just days after an Executive Committee was formed to investigate McElroy's botched hiring, the Office of General Counsel has completed their internal review.

The Texas A&M system has settled with Kathleen McElroy, Ph.D., over her botched hiring, awarding her $1 million in damages. McElroy will continue working as a tenured professor of journalism

Texas A&M University and Dr. Kathleen McElroy have reached a settlement over her botched hiring to run the university's new journalism school.

Awarded to Kathleen McElroy Thursday, the settlement was accompanied with an apology - in which officials admitted mistakes were made during [her] hiring process this past June.

Top Texas A&M officials were involved in botched recruiting of journalism professor, who will receive $1 million settlement

The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents voted unanimously Sunday evening to make acting President Mark A. Welsh III the interim-president of its flagship university, 10 days after former

Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham alleged Wednesday that opioids expert Joy Alonzo told students in a guest lecture that “Your Lt. Governor says those kids deserve to die.” Alonzo denied the claims.

In his first comments as interim president, Mark A. Welsh IIII cast recent concerns over political interference in Texas A&M’s employment decisions as “communication breakdowns.”