Recent actions from an advisory-only faculty group highlight the changing nature of university governance in the Lone Star State.
During a meeting of Texas A&M’s Faculty Advisory Council last week, members declined to recommend changes to a series of courses despite concerns that the courses in question would promote far-left content in an “unbalanced” manner.
Business professor Adam Kolasinski had requested the removal of two courses from the consent agenda to challenge their content and syllabi.
Kolasinski argued that course materials for the first course, Stereotypes and Prejudice, presented a narrow, one-sided perspective that promoted DEI and systemic racism narratives without offering counterarguments or a broader scholarly spectrum. He moved to send the course back for redesign.
Representatives from the department and others said the council should trust the expertise of the department faculty. The motion to send it back failed, and the course was subsequently approved.
Kolasinski also objected to the use of an “advocacy textbook” in Sociology 421: Gender and Crime, that promoted so-called “prison abolition.”
