US EditionAbout 200 Texas A&M Courses Could Change Due to New Restrictions on Teaching Gender, Race
Texas A&M’s new policy led to the removal of race and gender modules from a core philosophy course, affecting roughly 200 courses in the College of Arts and Sciences, officials said.
- On Dec. 22, Martin Peterson submitted his PHIL 111 syllabus and learned Tuesday he must remove race and gender modules or face reassignment days before the spring 2026 semester.
- After a viral video and backlash, the A&M System Board of Regents approved a November rule requiring university presidents' approval for courses advocating race or gender ideology, narrowed in mid-December to restrict such advocacy in core classes.
- College leaders identified roughly 200 courses as potentially affected by the new policy, emails show some classes were canceled or renumbered, and departments are renumbering courses to remove core credit with about 30 exemption requests expected.
- Peterson argued the move violated academic freedom and said he will consult legal counsel, while the Texas A&M Chapter of the American Association of University Professors and Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression criticized it as an assault on the U.S. First Amendment.
- Faculty were told roughly 200 courses in the College of Arts and Sciences could be affected across 17 colleges and schools at Texas A&M University, with students already registered facing disruptions as similar reviews occur in other public university systems and the Texas Tech University System.
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About 200 Texas A&M courses could change due to new restrictions on teaching gender, race
Faculty at Texas A&M University were told this week that roughly 200 courses in the College of Arts and Sciences could be affected by a new system policy restricting classroom discussions of race and gender, the implementation of which has already led administrators to direct a philosophy professor
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Martin Peterson, a philosophy professor at Texas A&M, is being instructed to drop readings from his course related to race and gender, including passages by Plato, or face reassignment, according to information we received from FIRE, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression. This follows new guidance from A&M’s board of regents that strips faculty of the right to determine curriculum regarding “race or gender ideology” and “sexual ori…
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The department chair reported to him that the "College leadership team" had decided that the section, including the Plato readings, would have to be excised from the class. If Peterson did not do so, he would be reassigned to teach a different class. Censoring Plato was probably not exactly what the regents had in mind (though Victorianism does seem to be making a comeback in some circles), but such a result was all too predictable when viral vi…
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COLLEGE STATION – The Houston Chronicle reports a Texas A&M professor has been told not to teach certain writings from Plato, a staple in introductory philosophy courses, because they may violate the university system’s new rules against “advocating” race or gender ideology, or topics concerning sexual orientation, in core classes. “Plato has been censored,” said Martin Peterson, who clarified that he was speaking not on the university’s behalf,…
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