Texas A&M recruited a UT professor to revive its journalism program, then backtracked after “DEI hysteria”

Kathleen McElroy, a professor of journalism at the University of Texas at Austin’s School of Journalism and a graduate of Texas A&M, in her apartment in Austin on Tuesday. (Credit: Joe Timmerman/The Texas Tribune)

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When Texas A&M University announced last month that it had hired a director to revive its journalism school, it included the kind of fanfare usually reserved for college coaches and athletes.