"A Texas A&M committee agreed that the university was wrong to fire a professor earlier this year after a controversy over a classroom video that showed a student objecting to a children's literature lesson about gender identity. The internal committee ruled that the university didn't follow proper procedures and didn't prove there was good cause to fire Melissa McCoul, who was a senior lecturer in the English department with over a decade of teaching experience."
""Dr. McCoul asserts that the flimsy reasons proffered by A&M for her termination are a pretext for the University's true motivation: capitulation to Governor Abbott's demands," Reichek said in a statement. The video roiled campus and led to sharp criticism of university president Mark Welsh, who later resigned, but he didn't offer a reason and never mentioned the video in his resignation announcement."
An internal Texas A&M committee concluded that the university's summary dismissal of senior lecturer Melissa McCoul was not justified, finding procedural errors and insufficient proof of good cause. The committee unanimously voted that proper dismissal procedures were not followed. Interim President Tommy Williams has received the committee's nonbinding recommendation and will review it before making a decision. Republican officials, including Gov. Greg Abbott, had called for McCoul's termination after a classroom video showed a student objecting to a children's literature lesson about gender identity. McCoul's lawyer alleges the termination was a pretext for capitulation to political pressure and says litigation appears likely. University claims that course content did not align with curriculum or catalog descriptions are disputed by McCoul's lawyer, who says McCoul was never instructed to change course content.
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