Newly released documents show how the university’s administrators repeatedly caved to pressure from politically powerful conservative influences.
If the self-styled campus speech defenders...could be counted on to act with a shred of intellectual honesty, one might expect them to regard the developments out of Texas with the same scrutiny typically reserved for overzealous college activists at small liberal arts colleges.
In response to such “regent inquiries,” Banks and Bermudez decided that McElroy was not to be granted tenure as originally planned. The two began working to water down McElroy’s contract, and Banks repeatedly mentioned giving Bermudez a bonus for helping to do so. Ultimately, the conservative regents’ response to their perception that, as director, McElroy would dash their hopes to make the school’s journalism program a factory for right-wing journalists—and the administration’s craven capitulation to such concerns—provided the stumbling block that sent McElroy’s hiring to a grinding halt.
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