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Texas A&M Eliminates Women’s and Gender Studies Degree After Policy Review

Leaders attribute the move to low enrollment, citing compliance challenges under a regents policy that limits advocacy related to race or gender.

Overview

  • Current students may finish the program within six semesters, but the university will not admit new majors or minors.
  • Administrators announced the decision alongside results of a campus review that examined roughly 5,400 spring syllabi and canceled six undergraduate courses.
  • Deans sent 54 elective courses for executive review under the regents policy, and the president and provost granted 48 written exemptions.
  • Faculty leaders say the six cancellations understate the impact because hundreds of syllabi were revised or readings removed to avoid scrutiny.
  • Officials cite small program size and costs in the phase‑out, noting about 25 majors and 31 minors, as PEN America and FIRE criticized the move as censorship.