Regents of the Texas A&M University System are set to approve an overhaul of the core curricula at the system’s component institutions during their quarterly meeting on Thursday.
According to the agenda for Thursday’s meeting, the Committee on Academic and Student Affairs will present, discuss, and recommend action to the full board regarding the core curriculum review.
Supplemental materials for this item cover 63 pages of the 357-page agenda book.
Regents will remove dozens of courses from the core curriculum across the A&M System, with the majority coming from the College Station campus.
Most of the removed courses appear ideologically nondescript, although some obviously politicized courses have been removed. Examples include:
- Climate Change
- Feminist Science, Tech, and Medicine
- Introduction to Latinx Literary Studies
- LGBTQ Literatures
- Aesthetics of Activism
- Sociology of Deviance
- Gender and Health
- Multicultural Education
- Diversity in Sports Organizations
- Sociology of Minorities
- Race and Ethnic Relations
The review in question began under Senate Bill 37, a 2025 state law that reformed several aspects of university governance.
As part of those changes, the new laws require governing boards of taxpayer-subsidized university systems to conduct a review of all general education curricula every five years. General education requirements are a set of courses all students must complete, regardless of major.
Higher education authors Jason Brennan and Phil Magness have criticized these mandates as a subsidy for economically unsustainable programs that frequently protect woke curricula from accountability.
Elsewhere on the agenda, regents are expected to approve a series of tenure applications from across the system.
While the current cohort includes far fewer examples of politicized awardees than previously criticized rounds, it does include Dr. Joseph Cooper.
Cooper is the author of “Black Sporting Resistance: Diaspora, Transnationalism, and Internationalism (Critical Issues in Sport and Society).”
“In this text, Joseph N. Cooper introduces the Black Sporting Resistance Framework (BSRF) as an analytic lens to examine how resistance actions in and through sport have contributed to the advancement of local and global racial justice efforts,” the book’s Amazon description states.
An official Texas A&M social media account describes Cooper as “a nationally recognized scholar and leader in sport, education, race, and culture.”
Finally, regents are expected to eliminate a series of “low-performing” degree programs from institutions outside the College Station campus. Most are ideologically nondescript.
The regents ordered this review following their 2024 elimination of a series of low-performing degrees, including some that taught far-left content, at the College Station campus.
The Texas A&M System consists of twelve academic institutions and eight state agencies. The A&M System is overseen by a Board of Regents that is appointed by the governor and confirmed by the Texas Senate. Robert Albritton of Fort Worth is the current board chairman.
