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Texts between some members of Texas A&M's board of regents reveal they wanted to promote conservative causes in the new journalism department.
Multiple Texas A&M University System regents voiced concerns about the perceived left-leaning credentials of Kathleen O. McElroy, a Black journalism professor, hired to launch a new journalism program at their flagship school, according to an internal report released Thursday. Top system leaders questioned the decision after a conservative website blasted the hiring of McElroy, a […]
The messages came to light during a lawsuit over the dismissal of Kathleen McElroy, who says the school rescinded a job offer after "DEI hysteria."
Some members of the university system’s board of regents said they wanted to promote conservative causes at the flagship campus and resisted efforts to hire journalism professor Kathleen O. McElroy, who they believed would work counter to those goals.
Meredith Seaver/APIn June, Texas A&M University held a public ceremony announcing the hiring of Kathleen McElroy—a veteran journalist, former New York Times editor, and Texas A&M alumnus—as the director of the school’s revived journalism program.The university celebrated the hire in Texas A&M Today, and in a “recap” of the online reaction to the announcement obtained by The Daily Beast, the university’s social media coordinator wrote that it was “one of the most positively received stories we ha