Some States Eyeing More Extensive Anti-DEI Measures in Higher Education

The Women’s and Gender Studies major at Texas A&M will be phased out within three years, while six courses across various majors were canceled before classes resumed for the spring semester, the university announced. Administrators said in a Jan. 30 news release that the instruction in question does not support the requirement under the university system’s new policy for academic integrity. In the past two months, 5,400 course syllabi were reviewed, and faculty members and department heads worked diligently to remove race or gender ideology references in courses that are unrelated to those topics. “Strong oversight and standards protect academic integrity and restore public trust, guaranteeing that a degree from Texas A&M means something to our students and the people who will hire them,” Tommy Williams, interim university president, said in the release, which also noted that enrollment in the Women’s and Gender Studies program has continued to decline....