Texas A&M president resigns following controversy over professor's lesson

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : COLLEGE STATION - Mark A. Welsh III resigned as president of the Texas A&M University flagship on Thursday in a stunning fallout that comes one week after a viral "whistleblower" video raised questions about a professor's teaching on gender identity issues and drew outrage from Republican offices across the country.
56% : If you're in psychology and you're going to have to graduate and deal with that in the real world, okay, yes." Welsh was serving as dean of Texas A&M's Bush School of Government and Public Service -- and considering retirement, he has said -- when then-Chancellor John Sharp called him up to the presidency.
53% : Though Texas law bans DEI programs in public higher education, topics of diversity - including LGBTQ issues - can still be researched and discussed in classrooms.
52% : He said he would audit the university's 16,000 course sections to ensure the issue with misaligned course descriptions did not repeat, and the regents directed Hegar to audit all courses across the system's 12 universities to ensure compliance with applicable laws.
45% : Albritton said the board didn't place public support behind Welsh because "sometimes events move faster than you can." He said that they did not react to criticism from one lawmaker, who he did not call out by name, and Texas Scorecard.
40% : Faculty leaders said at the time that hiring efforts suffered as a result of the scandals, with the perception that government interference was infringing on their rights in the hiring and promotion process and chilling their speech in the classroom.

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