For Black Aggies, questions over professor’s botched hiring persist after president’s departure

Texas A&M University in College Station. (Credit: Shelby Knowles for The Texas Tribune)

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For Texas A&M University’s Black students and alumni, Friday’s sudden resignation of university President M. Katherine Banks after the botched hiring of a distinguished Black professor was an imperfect response that failed to answer a crucial question: Was the whole debacle caused by university administrators’ anxieties over diversity?