after Black journalist’s hiring at campus unravels. The interim dean also stepped down and returned to his faculty rank of professor. https://apnews.com/article/texas-am-diversity-inclusion-487edd40ee9a57faa0cfe94e8e4684e6 Profile of the controversial attempted hire: https://journalism.utexas.edu/faculty/kathleen-mcelroy She was hired as the assistant director and senior lecturer at UT in 2016. However, she's now a full professor with tenure.
They didn't hire the Black professor, but they will have to pay her $1 million. https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/04/us/texas-am-university-settlement-kathleen-mcelroy/index.html
... and resident DI fashion guy says IT LOOKS GOOD ON 'EM. Nice win, Professor McElroy. You taught them a much-needed lesson.
Oh Texas. To think having editor at New York Times on your resume would be a bad thing. In Texas at that school it was? Being Black had something to do with it too.
