US EditionTexas A&M abruptly cancels graduate-level ethics course over race, gender policy
Texas A&M canceled the course after the professor declined to provide materials for exemption from a new policy banning advocacy of race and gender ideology, affecting about 10 students.
- Texas A&M amended its Civil Rights Protections and Compliance policy in November to bar courses from advocating specified gender or race ideology, and instructors reported being asked to remove Plato's Symposium and Aristophanes' speech from syllabi.
- After a video by State Rep. Brian Harrison ignited the dispute, Texas public university systems reviewed courses and adopted new restrictions on race, gender, sexual orientation, and gender identity.
- Professor Leonard Bright pushed back, saying Sherman’s claim was false and that colleagues knew about the course cancellation before him.
- The dispute led to a professor's firing and a university president's resignation, and students enrolled in the canceled Ethics course were helped finding alternatives while the Texas A&M AAUP chapter challenged the administration.
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Texas A&M abruptly cancels graduate-level ethics course over race, gender policy
Texas A&M University canceled a graduate ethics course three days after the semester began, saying Professor Leonard Bright did not provide enough information to let administrators determine if the course meets new standards for discussing race and gender.
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The Gilmer MirrorTexas A&M abruptly cancels ethics course over race, gender policy
The university said the professor didn't provide enough information to determine if the course meets standards for discussing race and gender.
‘Censored’: Texas A&M cancels course under new ‘race and gender ideology’ policy
By Samuel O’Neal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram FORT WORTH, Texas — A Texas A&M graduate professor was told by the school’s government and public service department that his Ethics in Public Policy class was canceled three days into the spring 2026 semester. The university alleges professor Leonard Bright refused to submit information needed to be exempt from a new rule on teaching course content that is considered to include “gender and race ideolog…
Texas A&M Cancels Graduate Ethics Class in Course Review
Administrators say the professor teaching the course did not specify when and how race, gender and sexuality might come up in class. The professor says that would be impossible. Administrators at Texas A&M University in College Station canceled a graduate ethics course as part of an ongoing course review that seeks to censor instruction on topics related to race, gender and sexuality.
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