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The Texas Tribune
The Texas Tribune
National
William Melhado

Texas A&M president says she didn’t know about job offer changes that led to professor’s botched hiring

Kathleen McElroy, a professor of journalism at the University of Texas at Austin’s School of Journalism and a graduate of Texas A&M, outside her apartment in Austin on July 11, 2023.
Kathleen McElroy, a journalism professor at the University of Texas at Austin, stands outside her apartment in Austin on July 11, 2023. McElroy walked away from a job to revive Texas A&M's journalism program after the university watered down the offer amid conservative backlash to her hiring. (Credit: Joe Timmerman/The Texas Tribune)

Texas A&M President M. Katherine Banks told faculty on Wednesday she did not approve changes to an offer letter that led a prospective journalism professor to walk away from negotiations amid conservative backlash to her hiring.

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