José Luis Bermúdez, the interim dean of Texas A&M's College of Arts and Sciences, said Monday he will leave the university after a deal to hire respected journalist Kathleen O. McElroy fell apart amid conservative pushback.
Kathleen McElroy signs her appointment letter during a ceremony at Texas A&M University on June 13. José Luis Bermúdez, the interim dean of the school’s College of Arts and Sciences, announced Monday he will resign after the deal to hire McElroy fell apart., The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news.
“I feel in the light of controversy surrounding recent communications with Dr. Kathleen McElroy that this is the best thing that I can do to preserve the great things that we have achieved over the last year in creating the College of Arts and Sciences at Texas A&M,” José Luis Bermúdez said in the statement released Monday evening. “My continuation in this role would be a needless distraction as you all continue the work that we have begun.
Last month, A&M celebrated hiring McElroy — who worked at The New York Times for two decades and formerly directed the University of Texas at Austin’s School of Journalism — to revive the university’s journalism program. But thein the weeks that followed after a vocal group of constituents in the Texas A&M system expressed concern over her experience at the Times and with her work on race and diversity in newsrooms, McElroy told the Tribune last week.
McElroy, a 1981 Texas A&M graduate, was the director of the University of Texas at Austin’s School of Journalism between 2018 and 2022. She walked away from Texas A&M’s job offer after the university watered down the agreement.The first version of the job offer McElroy received, which she signed at a ceremony in June, showed the university offered to hire her as a tenured professor in the Department of Communication and Journalism and as the revived journalism program’s director.
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