In the fallout of A&M’s failure to hire professor Kathleen McElroy, students and alumni lament the missed opportunity to revive the university’s journalism program and provide students with valuable mentorship.
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“It’s a disservice when we make what was supposed to be something good a bad thing,” said Matthew Francis Jr., a fifth-year Texas A&M student who is pursuing a master’s degree in public service and administration. “Now Black students are left without representation of someone who has the experience of a faculty member that cares about what she does and someone who genuinely loves her field.”
Blanton also said Banks had misled faculty when she told them the decision to change McElroy’s job offer was made without her involvement. “If she’s resigning because she’s accepting the responsibility for what happened under her leadership, that’s probably the right thing to do,” she said. “But if she’s resigning because she accepted responsibility and now she’s being forced to resign, that’s not OK.”
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