Texas A&M board members sought a journalism program that would churn out conservatives to 'direct our message,' according to text messages

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school-to-churn-out-conservatives-2023-8

Texas A&M board members sent text messages about wanting a journalism
school that would churn out conservatives.

Jay Graham said in a text that he wanted students to "help direct our
message" after graduation.

TAMU reached a $1 million settlement with Kathleen McElroy after she says
the school dismissed her due to "DEI hysteria."

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Some members of Texas A&M University's Board of Regents reportedly want
the school's journalism program to churn out conservatives.

Jay Graham, one of the Texas A&M board members who ousted a journalist
after she accepted the job as the school's journalism director, talked
about wanting to have a program that would produce "high-quality
conservative Aggie journalists into the market," according to text
messages seen by KBTX and the Texas Tribune.

"We were going to start a journalism department to get high-quality
conservative Aggie students into the journalism world to help direct our
message," Graham said in a text message to fellow board member David
Baggett obtained by KBTX.

Graham did not immediately respond to multiple requests for comment sent
to him and his company. TAMU also did not immediately respond to Insider's
request for comment.

The TAMU Board of Regents ousted Kathleen McElroy in July after she
accepted the job as the school's director of journalism pending board
approval.

McElroy, who is Black, is a former New York Times editor. She also
previously oversaw the journalism program at the University of Texas, and
researched diversity, equity, and inclusion in media, according to The
Associated Press.

McElroy told The Texas Tribune that Texas A&M rescinded its job offer to
her after "DEI hysteria" among Texas university leaders.

In the text messages, Graham called McElroy's hiring "unacceptable" and
says the board "can't allow it to happen," according to KBTX.

"I feel damaged by this entire process," McElroy, who is a graduate of
Texas A&M, told the outlet. "I'm being judged by race, maybe gender. And I
don't think other folks would face the same bars or challenges. And it
seems that my being an Aggie, wanting to lead an Aggie program to what I
thought would be prosperity, wasn't enough."

On Thursday, Texas A&M reached a settlement with McElroy for $1 million
and admitted that "mistakes were made during the hiring process."

Emails obtained by the TAMU student paper The Battalion showed that Hart
Blanton, the school's head of the Department of Communication and
Journalism accused President President M. Katherine Banks of being
dishonest during McElroy's hiring process. Blanton claimed that his
signature was forged on the second offer sent to McElroy, which was
watered down.

Banks later resigned in the fallout of McElroy's botched hiring.


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