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

Joy Alonzo denied Wednesday that she accused Patrick of saying kids who died from opioid overdoses “deserve to die.”

Joy Alonzo, a suspended Texas A&M professor, denies saying Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick believes kids who die of overdoses "deserve" the outcome.

The Republican war on academic freedom is taking a severe toll at Texas A&M, where political meddling and conservative ideology chased off a prized journalism faculty recruit, nearly cost a

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

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.

The university system released its findings in an internal review of the botched hiring of Kathleen McElroy and the investigation into Joy Alonzo's alleged criticism of Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick at a recent lecture.

While a DEI is supposed to exempt academics and admissions, many are concerned it could be broadly applied — chilling free speech in the classroom.

While a looming ban on diversity, equity and inclusion efforts in Texas higher education shouldn’t apply to academics or admissions, students and professors worry the botched hiring is a harbinger of things to come