At Texas A&M, a philosophy class that was supposed to introduce students to Plato's ideas about love and justice has turned into a live case study in campus speech rules. After administrators told a ...
The law was never intended to serve as a tool for purging classroom content or turning individual professors into pariahs.
Texas A&M University’s new policy banning classroom advocacy for race and gender ideology has sparked controversy after a ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Texas A&M removed Plato’s Symposium from a required philosophy course amid new ideology rules. A longtime professor says he was ...
The Greek philosopher's writing explores themes of sexuality and gender, making it susceptible to the university's new rules adopted in November that ban the teaching of “race and gender ideology”.
A&M students held posters that read: "I'm sorry that higher education hurts your feelings," "Plato isn't 'woke'" and "Don't cheapen our degrees." ...
The university is reviewing courses under new rules restricting teaching about race and gender. Administrators told a philosophy professor to cut some lessons on Plato to comply. By Alan Blinder ...
You have /3 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. At least 200 courses in the Texas A&M University College of Arts and Sciences have been flagged or ...
As universities across Texas respond to new restrictions on classroom content, a directive limiting Plato readings at Texas A&M University has prompted concern among scholars who say it crosses into ...
There’s a sense of triumphalism in the headlines. “Texas A&M is banning Plato, citing his ‘gender ideology,’” one caption at Literary Hub read. “An ancient Greek philosopher falls victim to campus ...
Texas A&M University System serves 175,000 students annually across 12 institutions. Across all of them, core courses will no longer mention race, gender or LGBTQ content starting this semester. The ...
With the spring semester beginning at universities across the United States, faculty members at Texas A&M have revealed that more than 200 courses in the College of Arts and Sciences have been flagged ...