Texas AM University is ending its womens and gender studies program, changing the syllabuses of hundreds of courses and canceling six classes as part of a new policy that limits how professors can discuss some race and gender topics, school officials announced Friday.Recommended Video The changes to and cancellation of courses comes months after a viral video of a student confronting an instructor over her lessons threw Texas AM, one of the largest universities in the country, into upheaval. University officials tried to reassure the campus that the impacts of the new policy would be minimal, affecting only a small portion of the classes being offered and that class cancellations wouldnt create any obstacles preventing students from staying on course to graduate. Strong oversight and standards protect academic integrity and restore public trust, guaranteeing that a degree from Texas AM means something to our students and the people who will hire them, Interim President Tommy Williams said in a news release. That has been our focus through this process and will remain our focus as we move forward. But faculty and students, hundreds of whom gathered on campus Thursday evening to protest the changes being made under the new policy, have accused Texas AM of infringing on academic and student freedom. They have reduced this marketplace of ideas to now emphasizing or promoting a certain view when it comes to race, gender, and sexuality. And that view is quite literally erasing the
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