“The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents will not tolerate actions that damage the reputation of our institutions,” the school system said. “The Board has called for immediate and decisive steps to ensure that what happened this week will not be repeated. To that end, the Regents have asked the Chancellor to audit every course and ensure full compliance with all applicable laws.”
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Harrison included a video recorded by a female student who interrupted the lecturer and asked if it was legal to be teaching gender ideology, citing former President Donald Trump’s executive orders.
An entrance to Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas. (Getty images )
“I just have a question because I’m not entirely sure this is legal to be teaching, because according to our president, there [are] only two genders, and he said that he would be freezing agency’s funding programs that promote gender ideology,” a student was heard saying in the video.
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“You are under a misconception that what I’m saying is illegal,” a woman responds, before later adding, “and it’s time for you to leave.”
Harrison said in a letter to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott that a Texas A&M student whistleblower provided his office with video evidence of being removed from a children’s literature class after objecting to what he called persistent transgender and DEI indoctrination.
A general view shows the Texas A&M University campus in College Station, Texas, in December 2016. (Spencer Selvidge/ Reuters)
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Fox News Digital previously reached out to Texas A&M University for comment and was referred to a statement from university President Mark A. Welsh III. He addressed the controversy in a post Monday on Texas A&M’s X account.
“I learned this afternoon that key leaders in the College of Arts and Sciences approved plans to continue teaching course content that was not consistent with the course’s published description,” Welsh said. “As a result, I directed the provost to remove the dean and department head from their administrative positions, effective immediately.”
Texas A&M main campus clock tower. (iStock / Getty Images Plus)
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Glenn Hegar, the chancellor of the Texas A&M University System, issued his own statement Tuesday, saying, “I commend President Welsh on the action he has taken to terminate a faculty member who failed to follow instructions to align her course description with the actual content of her class.
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