Texas A&M’s Race and Gender Curriculum Clampdown: Academic Freedom Under Siege

As the spring semester at Texas A&M University dawns, an alarming new reality emerges for nearly 200 courses in the College of Arts and Sciences. Following a November policy enacted by the university’s Board of Regents—mandating administrative oversight of any course content potentially advocating “race and gender ideology”—faculty are scrambling to rewrite syllabi, cancel classes, or even remove classic works like Plato from their curriculum. Is Academic Freedom Becoming a Casualty of Bureaucratic Control? One might ask: when did honest classroom discussion become so dangerous? The recent directive requires professors to obtain presidential approval before exploring topics tied to race,...