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The purge of woke college courses continues at Texas colleges and universities. Weeks after the University of Houston announced it was slashing hundreds of non-essential courses, Texas A&M is doing the same. The A&M Board of Regents has voted to cut more than 250 courses from its core curriculum, in response to a new state law that requires general education courses be “foundational and fundamental” to student development. Among the courses getting the ax at A&M: “Feminist Science, Tech, and Medicine,” “LBGTQ Literatures,” “Intro to Latinx Literary Studies,” and one simply called “Climate Change.”
Christian Collins, founder of Texas Youth Summit, says this is a positive step toward realigning Texas higher education to better prepare students for the real world. “I don’t see how gender studies helps us compete in the AI race against China, or how Black Liberation theology helps us compete in a global economy,” he tells KTRH. “These are grievance studies that are turning us backwards, turning us against each other, and they’re not helping anything.”
The courses in question are not being banned or eliminated, but they will no longer be offered as part of the general studies curriculum. “These classes can still be taken as electives, but they shouldn’t be part of the core curriculum,” says Collins.
Still, Collins notes this is only one step in a larger and longer battle to combat wokeness in higher education. Just months ago, A&M was blasted for giving tenure to left-wing professors. “These professors are going to find a way to indoctrinate the kids, one way or another,” says Collins. “So, unless they take away tenure from some of these professors and just take a wrecking ball to the entire system, you’re still going to have leftist lunatics teaching these kids.”
