Texas A&M regents could offer a settlement to the journalism professor at center of hiring controversy

The Academic Building on the Texas A&M University campus on March 26, 2018. (Credit: Shelby Knowles for The Texas Tribune)

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The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents will meet Sunday to authorize the university to negotiate a potential settlement with Kathleen McElroy, a Black University of Texas at Austin journalism professor, who turned down a position at A&M after the university changed her job offer under pressure from conservative groups.