And then ultimately, they offered her a one-year contract to teach, which she ultimately said she could not take and felt like, you know, they were trying to say they did not want her there anymore. First, she said it was a five-year contract. But as we reported, McElroy told us in the event between that signing June 13, that signing ceremony into early July, the University started to kind of walk back its initial offer to give her a tenured position as a professor and to run this program and started offering different iterations of that agreement. They did this whole signing ceremony for her to come from UT Austin to Texas A&M to lead this new program. Kate McGee: Yes, so a few months ago, or last month, rather, the university announced that it hired Kathleen McElroy, to launch the new journalism program that it was reviving at Texas A&M. Josh Hinkle: Earlier this month, A&M President Katherine Banks resigned amid some other controversy. And by the end of the day, the professor was put on administrative leave pending some kind of investigation by the university into what had happened. And then from there, it kind of went down the chain of command from the system to the university. And A&M confirmed that this complaint started with the Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham, who called Dan Patrick, who then reached out to the Texas A&M University Chancellor John Sharp to alert him of this complaint that had been made about the comments. And we have confirmed that the daughter of Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham was in that class. ![]() ![]() Kate McGee: So she (Joy Alonzo) was giving a guest lecture at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston about the opioid crisis, which is her area of expertise, when she made a comment about the Lieutenant Governor, which no one has been able to confirm verbatim for us what exactly, she said, but it was something about the policy decisions in the Lieutenant Governor’s office and the impact they can have on preventing opioid-related deaths. Who was the professor who was suspended and what happened to lead up to the controversy there? Josh Hinkle: Let’s start with the issue involving the Lieutenant Governor. Kate McGee, who reports on higher education for the Texas Tribune, spoke about her reporting on the issues during an interview on State of Texas. The events are bringing new questions about academic freedom at A&M.
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