https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/09/18/texasam-president-resign-mark-welsh-gender/
gift link
Perhaps it would be better to link to pages without pay or other walls:
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/education/article/welsh-out-at-a-m-21054055.php
Lunacy. He didn’t teach the class.
His bungling of the entire situation demonstrates a problem in his leadership. His departure is warranted
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No one can err anymore.
Sad.
There’s a difference between erring and royally ■■■■■■■up.
Looks like the President was pressured to step down for his handling of a viral classroom video, which already resulted in a dean, head of department, and professor being fired. In addition to the firings, President Mark A. Welsh III had also demanded all faculty courses to be fully audited. Apparently this was not enough.
Texas A&M University President Mark A. Welsh III will step down on Friday after more than a week of turmoil sparked by a viral video of a student confronting a professor over gender content in a children’s literature course, the Texas A&M University System announced Thursday.
The video, along with an audio recording of Welsh initially refusing to fire Professor Melissa McCoul, first circulated online on Sept. 8 after state Rep. Brian Harrison, R-Midlothian, shared it on the social media platform X.
Welsh fired McCoul a day later, but the move did not satisfy Harrison**,** or Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, who did not think Welsh handled the situation properly.
“His ambivalence on the issue and his dismissal of the student’s concerns by immediately taking the side of the professor is unacceptable,” Patrick posted on X last week. “Most parents, students, and Aggie alumni expect Texas A&M to reflect the values of our state and our nation as well as A&M’s rich history. If President Welsh will not or cannot reflect those values, then change needs to happen.”
I’m definitely lacking some details here. Would someone be so kind as to explain what exactly was the teacher teaching that the students found objectionable?
@tamagotchi, here is the link to the original story: Texas A&M Fires Professor, Dean, and Department Head Over Gender-Identity Viral Video; Will Fully Audit All Its Courses
Yes, I looked at that story and I still don’t know exactly what was objectionable!
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That’s a point that many are making. 