Texas A&M moves to end Women’s and Gender Studies degree program

Texas A&M University announced connected Friday that it would beryllium eliminating its Women's and Gender Studies grade program, citing "limited pupil interest" and assemblage policies. The assemblage said that students presently enrolled successful the programme would beryllium allowed to implicit their degrees.

"For 150 years, Texas A&M has led the mode for higher acquisition successful Texas, our ngo unchanged," Interim President Tommy Williams said successful a statement. "Strong oversight and standards support world integrity and reconstruct nationalist trust, guaranteeing that a grade from Texas A&M means thing to our students and the radical who volition prosecute them. That has been our absorption done this process and volition stay our absorption arsenic we determination forward."

College of Arts and Sciences Interim Dean Simon North and Senior Executive Associate Cynthia Werner reportedly sent an email obtained by The Texas Tribune to module informing them of the decision.

"We cognize this is devastating news," the administrators said, according to The Texas Tribune. "One of the superior duties of assemblage administrators is to beryllium bully stewards of nationalist money. Even the smallest programs necessitate ongoing concern successful module time, unit support, and administrative oversight."

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Texas A&M has moved to destruct its Women's and Gender Studies grade program. (Spencer Selvidge/Reuters; Yuliya Taba/iStock / Getty Images Plus)

Texas A&M offered a bachelor of arts degree, a bachelor of subject degree, an undergraduate insignificant and a postgraduate certificate successful the program, according to the newspaper. The outlet reported that the programme has 25 students seeking a large and 31 seeking a minor.

The assemblage launched a broad people reappraisal for the Spring 2026 semester, examining 5,400 syllabi to guarantee compliance with its "Civil Rights Protections and Compliance" and "Academic Freedom, Responsibility and Tenure" policies. It said that hundreds of syllabi crossed 17 colleges and schools wrong the assemblage had been modified to conscionable argumentation requirements. Additionally, the assemblage gave deans of schools and colleges the accidental to petition exemptions for non-core program courses. The deans forwarded 54 courses to the university's president, and yet 48 exceptions were granted.

Texas A&M is eliminating its Women's and Gender Studies grade program (iStock)

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The reappraisal was launched aft a signaling of a pupil allegedly being removed from a people for questioning transgender-related people contented went viral. In the video, a pistillate pupil asked the prof if it was ineligible to thatch sex ideology, citing President Donald Trump’s enforcement orders. The lecturer said the pupil was nether a "misconception" that the people contented was amerciable and aboriginal said it was "time for you to leave."

The video prompted the Texas A&M University System Board of Regents to telephone for an audit of its courses.

"The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents volition not tolerate actions that harm the estimation of our institutions," the schoolhouse strategy said astatine the time. "The Board has called for contiguous and decisive steps to guarantee that what happened this week volition not beryllium repeated. To that end, the Regents person asked the Chancellor to audit each people and guarantee afloat compliance with each applicable laws."

A motion astatine the entranceway to Texas A&M University successful College Station, Texas. (wellesenterprises/iStock Editorial/Getty Images Plus)

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In November 2024, the committee of regents moved to destruct 52 "low-producing" minors and certificate programs, including its LGBTQ Studies minor. The LGBTQ Studies minor, which was nether the Women and Gender Studies Department, was initially approved successful the autumn of 2022. The assemblage requested to support the programme but was denied by the university's provost.

Fox News Digital reached retired to Texas A&M for comment.

Fox News Digital's Greg Norman-Diamond and Rachel del Guidice contributed to this report.