Texas A&M to revive journalism program...or not

[Flip Wilson]

Texas A&M was set to restart its journalism program after shutting it down 20 years ago. Now, the professor hired to run the program is returning to her position as a tenured prof at U of Texas, and for good reasons. Stupid Aggies.

Prospective A&M journalism director Kathleen McElroy plans to return to UT due to updated A&M job offer

 

[dixiehack]

Your typical Aggie Ex would consider Yankeefan too woke.

 

[Regan MacNeil]

Your typical Aggie Ex would consider Yankeefan too woke.

Say what you will about him, but I don't think he ever hated on gays or lesbians. Don't know how he feels about trans people.

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

Varsity sawed Aggie's horns off for once.

 

[Slacker]

Say what you will about him, but I don't think he ever hated on gays or lesbians. Don't know how he feels about trans people.

Rumor has it they make him feel "icky."

 

[PCLoadLetter]

Say what you will about him, but I don't think he ever hated on gays or lesbians. Don't know how he feels about trans people.

He was the most adamant poster in criticizing the Grantland article that outed the trans golf club inventor. When people were initially talking about how powerful the story was, Yankeefan was quite vocally disgusted with the way she was treated by the author. Dude recognized the ****tiness of the story long before our more liberal posters -- myself included.

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

This it?

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[dixiehack]

Think I remember him saying a coworker was trans and he was sympathetic after he saw what kind of **** they had to endure. So that’s his Gorsuch with Native Americans wild card.

If anything, that strengthens my assertion about former students of College Station.

 

[PCLoadLetter]

This it?

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That's it.

 

[TigerVols]

Texas A&M was set to restart its journalism program after shutting it down 20 years ago. Now, the professor hired to run the program is returning to her position as a tenured prof at U of Texas, and for good reasons. Stupid Aggies.

Prospective A&M journalism director Kathleen McElroy plans to return to UT due to updated A&M job offer

Everything about this story perfectly encapsulates the journalism industry circa 2023. Imagine thinking you deserve a 5 year bulletproof contract to teach 19 year olds about an industry that is on life support.

 

[MeanGreenATO]

Some news: A&M president is out after this whole debacle

Texas A&M President Katherine Banks resigns amid fallout from failed hiring of journalism professor

 

[Azrael]

oy

 

[LanceyHoward]

Everything about this story perfectly encapsulates the journalism industry circa 2023. Imagine thinking you deserve a 5 year bulletproof contract to teach 19 year olds about an industry that is on life support.

People have to make decisions based on what is in their best interest. I think McElroy might wonder how much job security she would have in College Station. She can quite reasonably decide that risks of leaving a secure position in Austin is not worth the risk of getting bounced in a year or two at A@M.

I wish more journalists had the same opportunities McElroy has.

 

[playthrough]

Everything about this story perfectly encapsulates the journalism industry circa 2023. Imagine thinking you deserve a 5 year bulletproof contract to teach 19 year olds about an industry that is on life support.

She deserved tenure. There are professors with tenure that teach Latin -- now there's an industry on life support.

 

[tapintoamerica]

Everything about this story perfectly encapsulates the journalism industry circa 2023. Imagine thinking you deserve a 5 year bulletproof contract to teach 19 year olds about an industry that is on life support.

My question is more with the notion that a university should revive an academic program dedicated to a dying industry. No problem with the instructor/administrator. If you’re going to be tasked with leading a degree program and asked to uproot, you should get some protection.
Would you leave a job in which you have some protection for one in which you have none?

 

[MeanGreenATO]

Some context about Banks and A&M: She also killed the print edition of the student newspaper and only allowed a limited reprieve after there was public backlash from the move.

Breaking: President Banks demands The Battalion stop printing

 

[matt_garth]

 

[Azrael]

goin' great!

Race was a factor in Black professor’s failed hiring, Texas A&M department head says

 

[playthrough]

Some context about Banks and A&M: She also killed the print edition of the student newspaper and only allowed a limited reprieve after there was public backlash from the move.

Breaking: President Banks demands The Battalion stop printing

This is par for the course with college papers. They have the same financial problems as everyday papers, with the same lack of solutions, and university leadership has little motivation to help because eventually the student reporters are going to come for their asses for something. A dead student paper can't hold a president accountable.

I'm on the alumni board for my alma mater's paper and it's just hard. The university likes to say it has a top-notch journalism program enhanced by student media but it's not helping financially. We had a fundraising drive a couple years ago to help with the paper's operating costs but that's virtually gone already, and it's hard to keep going back to that well because the alumni ... are journalists. Whereas the law school or business school can snap its fingers anytime and its alumni will scratch huge checks.

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

Probably a bad example since they're all deceased (but one), but it's easier to brag when your J-school alumni include Lady Bird Johnson, Walter Cronkite, Bill Moyers (who I discovered is still alive at age 89) and Liz Carpenter.

Aggie's only response that even moves the needle a little is righty talker Neal Boortz and a local regular guest columnist at my old paper.

Not a T-sipper, just like to gig 'em every once in a while.