A Texas A&M committee tasked with the implementation of a new state law includes several professors who have promoted woke endeavors, including diversity initiatives and gender ideology.
This committee will oversee a review of general education requirements under Senate Bill 37, a measure state lawmakers passed in 2025. General education requirements are a set coursework all students must complete, regardless of major.
Texas A&M System regents authorized this committee in its February meeting. Provost Alan Sams announced the committee roster in a recent campuswide email.
Several committee members have documented histories of woke content. Another has attacked President Donald Trump and promoted former President Obama.
Matthew McKinney, an English professor, has an extensive history with critical race theory, “diversity,” and “inclusivity.” In 2021, McKinney hosted a symposium “addressing diversity, inclusion, and social justice in the writing classroom.”
In 2016, McKinney gave a presentation that described social conservatives as “Counter-Revolutionary.”
Marian Eide, an English professor, contributed to the 2021 symposium discussed above. Her official A&M biography lists her as a professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and states that “feminist theory” is one of her research interests.
Texas A&M recently announced that it will abolish the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies once its current students matriculate.
Andrew Klein, a professor in the geography department, was the final speaker of Texas A&M’s faculty senate, which was abolished last August under another provision of SB 37. Klein is now tasked with implementing a law he opposed during his speakership.
Klein also serves on a similar committee for the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board.
Director of Institutional Effectiveness Elizabeth Piwonka lists her pronouns on LinkedIn:
Jennifer Mercieca, a journalism professor, has written books calling Trump a “demagogue,” and Obama “heroic.”
The General Education Committee is expected to complete its work in May.
Texas A&M is not the only taxpayer-subsidized higher education institution to have placed woke personnel in a position to review general education requirements. UT-Austin has placed Richard Reddick, a vice provost with an extensive history of promoting DEI, in a similar position on its campus.
Texas A&M is a component of the Texas A&M University System. The Texas 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.
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