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Kathleen McElroy, Ph.D., was set to lead Texas A&M’s journalism program into the future, reviving the major after a 19-year hiatus, signing off on the position on June 13. But
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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.
Newly released documents show how the university’s administrators repeatedly caved to pressure from politically powerful conservative influences.
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