So back to tu she goes...

https://texasscorecard.com/state/update-nyt-diversity-advocate-rejects-ams-journalism-director-offer/

Good riddance

What a way to treat a fellow Aggie. Good luck getting any quality candidate to take over the program now.

Yeah, my understanding is that McElroy was offered an unusually good contract, and this was highly publicized, all before informing and getting the approval of the BOR.
I suspect the whole maneuver was done this way so as to set up a complaint if she was not hired, and I fully expect a lawsuit against the university. This how the left takes over institutions - hire us or get in trouble.
I don't expect the University to suffer any other consequences. In fact, becoming known as one of the few schools that still teaches ethical, conservative (as in report the facts separate from opinion) Journalism might do us well.

We've had our asses handed to us in Journalism for years, then we find an Aggie, with a background in sports reporting, major newspapers, and was the Director of Journalism at a school with a journalism program that is light years ahead of our (and not to mention our in-state rival).

Threw it all away because some old ags got their ******* hurt because the lady thinks racism is a thing.

Not only did we welch on our deal, but we didn't even have the balls to say no outright, we just kept changing the terms until they left. Spineless.

I agree with anyone who says we should not hire racists.
Our difference probably is that I consider DEI to be racism, as does the State.

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Threw it all away because some old ags got their ******* hurt because the lady thinks racism is a thing.

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Wrong. It's because she openly states that journalists should prioritize political activism over truth-seeking/reporting. That's why the profession is so debased, and it's the last thing we want to contribute to as Aggies.

Interim Dean stepped down today, I'm sure he sucked too.

I mean he could have avoided telling McElroy all the dirty laundry and ****ing over his employer.

His obligation was to serve A&M's interests, not blame everything on racists running A&M from the shadows.

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Threw it all away because some old ags got their ******* hurt because the lady thinks racism is a thing.

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Wrong. It's because she openly states that journalists should prioritize political activism over truth-seeking/reporting. That's why the profession is so debased, and it's the last thing we want to contribute to as Aggies.

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She's a left wing activists, as nearly all "journalists" are today. She would have spread leftist rot at A&M. We dodged a bullet.

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Interim Dean stepped down today, I'm sure he sucked too.

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Good riddance to that POS too. Unfortunately, he's still on the faculty.

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We've had our asses handed to us in Journalism for years, then we find an Aggie, with a background in sports reporting, major newspapers, and was the Director of Journalism at a school with a journalism program that is light years ahead of our (and not to mention our in-state rival).

Threw it all away because some old ags got their ******* hurt because the lady thinks racism is a thing.

Not only did we welch on our deal, but we didn't even have the balls to say no outright, we just kept changing the terms until they left. Spineless.

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Imagine caring about what the woke mob thinks this much.

So, what are students learning at that university?
I prefer that, if A&M is to have a Journalism school at all,
that it NOT be a school of propaganda for either side.
But in today's world fair and balanced means conservative.

https://texasscorecard.com/state/george-soros-funds-race-centered-journalism-at-ut-austin/

Agree. We will have no problem getting a quality selection to head the journalism department and hopefully it will be someone that won't have a leftist agenda in mind . My personal opinion, we should embrace being a beacon of unbiased and factual reporting rather than the typical propaganda machine that most journalism departments and outlets have become. It would be a positive differentiator.

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We've had our asses handed to us in Journalism for years, then we find an Aggie, with a background in sports reporting, major newspapers, and was the Director of Journalism at a school with a journalism program that is light years ahead of our (and not to mention our in-state rival).

Threw it all away because some old ags got their ******* hurt because the lady thinks racism is a thing.

Not only did we welch on our deal, but we didn't even have the balls to say no outright, we just kept changing the terms until they left. Spineless.

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Imagine caring about what the woke mob thinks this much.

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What you considered the woke mob is the overwhelming majority of the best HS students our state is producing. All of these self-inflicted wounds are taking a toll on our reputation. Once upon a time an argument could be made there was an academic reason to choose A&M over Texas. Now our best students mostly didn't get in, or didn't get the major they wanted at Texas.

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That's simply not true. There are a LOT of kids and a LOT of parents of kids that would like to go study somewhere that isn't a Woke indoctrination club.

If we had hired her we would basically just be trying to be a cheap lower end copy of Texas. Kids that are Woke aren't coming to A&M over Texas for something like Journalism if it is pushing the same stuff. If they are they are coming to try and change A&M not to embrace it.

The path for A&M is to offer something different. That doesn't mean we need to be hardcore conservative but simply being fundamental news based journalism would be appealing. Most Journalism schools now are pushing advocacy not reporting. Find some of the "old school" journalists and offer them a home to teach, don't try to just be another advocacy school and a lesser one at that.

BTW, Journalism is the #1 most Regretted Major. If it is something we are going to offer we need to find someone trying to do it in a new way and not follow the mistakes that other schools are making: Top 10 Most Regretted Majors

Agreed - a certain segment of A&M faculty and alums have been trying to make us a second-rate copy of t.u. for decades. The football board is full of such "Aggies".

Regarding this particular professor, she was a woke ideologue who would have been a cancer at A&M. We never should have even started discussions with her. Typical of leftist race-baiters, she instantly claimed that she had been "damaged" due to imaginary racism. This was an almost automatic way to get the cowards in academia to buckle and give her a wholly undeserved settlement. She's a grifter in a way that nearly all loud race-baiters and leftist faculty are. We are better off without her, and its infuriating that she was able to extort free money from our chicken-**** administration.

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There is a lot of parents that say that, but if little Timmy gets into Stanford and Liberty guess where there going to go.

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Liberty is a poor example for this comparison. You intentionally picked a woke university with the highest name recognition and ratings in various publications and compared it to a much lower ranked conservative university that is making great strides but hasn't had 400 years of good PR yet. A somewhat better comparison might have been, say, Brown or Tufts vs. Hillsdale. Given that choice, I'd recommend Hillsdale.