A vice chancellor upheld the firing of Melissa McCoul, seen in a viral video being confronted by a student on her gender identity teachings, saying the termination was done with “good cause.”
Ahead of Texas A&M's playoff game hosting Miami, ESPN reported that A&M legend Johnny Manziel would serve as the show’s celebrity guest picker, following the network’s tradition of selecting a notable figure connected to the home team. However, Johnny Football was nowhere to be found.
Texas A&M finished the year 11-2—still one of the most successful seasons in program history, but one that ended with the sting of unmet potential.
On Saturday, Dec. 20, the Aggies will make their College Football Playoff debut, hosting the Miami Hurricanes at Kyle Field in College Station, Texas.
The mother of a Texas A&M University student found dead after a night out in Austin is demanding answers and questioning what she has been told about her daughter’s final hours.
A Texas A&M University student died just hours after attending a tailgate for the school’s rivalry game against Texas in Austin on Friday night.
Texas A&M did not have good cause to fire a professor after a video of a gender lesson created a political storm, and the school failed to follow due process, a faculty appeal committee found.
With the Aggie football team boasting a 9-0 record and a No. 3 ranking in the latest AP poll, it was only a matter of time before the red-asses of Brazos County coined a new trend to commemorate the success.
University officials dispute the faculty council’s conclusion. Melissa McCoul lost her job after a video of a classroom debate went viral.
State Rep. Brian Harrison has been on a crusade against Texas universities, scouring course catalogs and university websites for examples of “gender ideology” or LGBTQ+ curriculum, and riling up his X followers about “liberal indoctrination” on campuses.
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One of the incidents involved a person eating a sandwich and having a “water jug of whiskey.” Their blood alcohol content was .337 (four times the legal limit).
Several pledges had to be hospitalized, according to one of the victims, after an “almost torturous” workout at The Kappa Sigma Lodge on Sunday, Sept. 14.
Officials have struggled to detail the exact reasons for the A&M professor’s termination, citing a technical issue with her course description. Faculty say the move was politically motivated.
Calls for Welsh’s ousting intensified over his handling of a student’s complaints about gender identity discussions in a children’s literature class.
Some lawmakers have called for Welsh to be fired over his handling of a student’s complaints about gender identity content being taught in a children’s literature class.
The firing happened over two years after Texas A&M stressed its support for academic freedom and amid a changing higher education landscape.
The committees were made to honor slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk and come as university faculty have come under online scrutiny.
Hundreds of students and community members gathered at Texas A&M University for a candlelight vigil honoring slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk on Sept. 11, 2025.
An attorney for Melissa McCoul, seen in a video clashing with a student over gender-identity content in her class, said the professor is weighing her legal options.
After the video fueled outrage, a professor was fired and two college leaders removed from their administrative roles for approving content inconsistent with the course’s description.
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During a visit to College Station, the U.S. health secretary said Europe has a worse track record with the virus, which gets too much media attention.
More than 250 students in Texas had their status revoked in recent weeks. Despite the reversal, federal attorneys say they’re developing policies to resume terminations.
The Trump administration has said it has revoked the visas of more than 300 international students across the country in the last three weeks.
Judge Lee H. Rosenthal said the student group that organizes Draggieland, the Queer Empowerment Council, was likely to succeed in showing the ban violates the First Amendment.
At a public event last week, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said higher ed would get less funding if they don’t “kick DEI out of their schools,” a few weeks after lawmakers proposed a massive cut to public universities.
KPRC 2's Kendall Mayes interviews Prairie View A&M University director Dr. Melanye Price and co-director Dr. Marco Robinson from the Ruth J. Simmons center for race and justice.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott was fired up on social media after Texas A&M University reportedly sponsored a trip to a conference that only accepted applications from students of certain racial identities—a violation of a new state law preventing participation in such events.
Abbott's comments came after A&M invited staffers and students to attend a conference that a conservative activist said broke the state’s ban on diversity, equity and inclusion programs.
At least a third of respondents at UT-Austin, UT-Dallas and Texas A&M said they’re not sure administrators at their universities protect free speech on campus.
Staff relations continue to be important for Mark Welsh III as he rebuilds trust after a hiring controversy and universities brace for legislation targeting faculty senates.
Texas A&M University is set to mark the anniversary of the campus bonfire tragedy that killed 12 people and injured dozens more 25 years ago.
After conservative criticism over the LGBTQ+ minor, university officials started looking at all its programs. Faculty say they were excluded from the process.
Delays in the new FAFSA led students to take out debt, enroll in community college over their top-choice universities or opt out of going to college.
The students saw the move as part of a political environment that has become increasingly hostile against LGBTQ+ people in Texas.
The weeklong heat wave that baked most of the U.S. Southwest in temperatures well into triple digits is on its last legs, but forecasters are still urging people to be cautious.
The new fines underscore the challenges college students face when looking for affordable housing — and how cities struggle to provide it.
A new law dismantling the state’s diversity, equity and inclusion offices at publicly-funded universities and colleges will go into effect in 2024.
Thousands of people gathered early Saturday morning to remember the 12 lives lost in 1999 when a bonfire collapsed during construction at Texas A&M University.
The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents named the former dean and four-star general as the sole finalist for president Friday. Many believe Welsh is the right person to move the university forward after a pair of controversies bruised the school’s morale.
A&M System Chancellor John Sharp will recommend Welsh, a retired Air Force general, as the sole finalist for the job at a Board of Regents meeting later this week. Welsh has held the position in the interim since July.
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If approved, the new fund would provide tens of millions of dollars to the University of Houston, Texas Tech, Texas State University and University of North Texas.
Mark Welsh said that Texas A&M will stay the course on many controversial changes made by former President Kathy Banks. Professors welcomed Welsh’s commitment to faculty input moving forward.
The judge tossed the suit after the university argued a new state law that will go into effect in January, Senate Bill 17, already prohibits preferential treatment in hiring at public universities.
The guidance asks universities in the system to avoid using the acronym DEI on their websites and walk a fine line between organizing events that “support diversity in a general way” but don’t “promote preferential treatment of any particular group.”
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A 48-year-old California man has pleaded guilty to a nationwide ticket scam that included a Texas A&M football game, the United States Department of Justice said.
In his first comments as interim president, Mark A. Welsh IIII cast recent concerns over political interference in Texas A&M’s employment decisions as “communication breakdowns.”
Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham alleged Wednesday that opioids expert Joy Alonzo told students in a guest lecture that “Your Lt. Governor says those kids deserve to die.” Alonzo denied the claims.
The board also gave university lawyers the green light to negotiate a possible settlement with Kathleen McElroy after the university bungled the hiring of the journalism professor.
The university has been rattled by two cases in which university officials were apparently rushed into making faculty employment decisions due to political pressure.
The professor, an expert on the opioids crisis, was placed on paid administrative leave and investigated, raising questions about the extent of political interference in higher education, particularly in health-related matters.
In the fallout from A&M’s failure to hire Kathleen McElroy, students and alumni lament the missed opportunity to revive the university’s journalism program and provide students with mentorship.
The president of Texas A&M University has resigned after a Black journalist’s celebrated hiring at one of the nation’s largest campuses unraveled over criticism of her diversity and inclusion work.
M. Katherine Banks told faculty she was unaware of successive, diminished offers to Kathleen O. McElroy, who was recruited to revive a journalism program. Professors demanded an investigation.
The university announced the hiring of Kathleen McElroy, a Black former New York Times journalist, but later backtracked on its offer amid conservative pushback.
The university celebrated its decision to hire Kathleen McElroy to revive its journalism program. She says she’s staying at UT after she felt judged because of her race and gender.
Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled the practice unconstitutional, admissions experts say other states could look to Texas’ Top 10% Plan as a way to diversify their student bodies.
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The state Senate originally passed a bill to ban tenure, but on Saturday it approved the House’s counterproposal, which enshrines tenure in state law.
The Texas A&M University System will supercharge the development of Prairie View A&M University’s new National Center for Infrastructure Transformation with a $500,000 boost for the next five years.
Texas lawmakers are poised to create a new multibillion-dollar endowment to boost emerging research universities in national rankings. But faculty members say banning diversity offices and tenure would stymie those efforts.
The system leaders’ decision comes weeks after Gov. Greg Abbott ordered state agencies to stop considering diversity in hiring. Texas A&M University also recently changed its hiring practices.
A man accused of crashing into an Uber vehicle and killing two women while leading police on a chase in northeast Houston in 2020 was found guilty of murder, Crime Stoppers announced.
The Texas A&M on-campus early-voting location had the second-highest voter turnout in the county during the 2018 and 2020 presidential elections.
The “all-clear” has been given for students and staff to return to normal operations after police investigated a bomb threat at Texas A&M University.
The Brazos County commissioner who represents the precinct where the university is located cited low turnout as a partial reason for relocating the polling location.
A NASA researcher and Texas A&M University professor pleaded guilty to charges related to hiding his ties to a university created by the Chinese government while accepting federal grant money.
Lowry Mays, a 1957 graduate of Texas A&M University and the namesake of its business school, died on Monday at the age of 87, according to the university.
Faculty members say Banks could have been more communicative and transparent about a variety of organizational changes she put in motion during her first year as president.
Rittenhouse corrected himself on Monday saying he was attending the Brenham-based community college. Over the weekend, he made a splash when Texas A&M refuted his claim he was an incoming Aggie.
A former Texas A&M team physician has bonded out of jail after being accused of sexually assaulting at least two women, Brazos County Sheriff's Office records show.
A jury awarded Evdokia Nikolova damages for past and future pain and suffering after finding UT-Austin illegally discriminated against her when the school denied her tenure.
The chancellor instructed universities and agencies in the system to dissolve all agreements, especially those related to academics, research and intellectual property.
The student newspaper will continue as an online-only news organization after the spring semester. But the university’s unilateral decision to end the print edition without student input has students and faculty concerned about its editorial independence.
John Harvey Slocum, the son of a famous A&M football coach, is seeking to unseat state Rep. John Raney, R-College Station.
So much is unknown about the new COVID-19 variant: the severity of the illness it causes, whether it can resist vaccines and natural antibodies and whether it’s more contagious than the delta variant that has burned through Texas and the U.S. for months.
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