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On Thursday afternoon, Texas A&M University President Mark A. Welsh III announced that he will resign, effectively Friday, Sept. 19, at 5 p.m. CT.

This announcement comes after Welsh's handling of a controversy involving a Children's Literature class in which a video showed a Texas A&M University student having a disagreement over gender studies curriculum with professor Melissa McCoul.

Texas Representative Brian Harrison said that the student was "kicked out" of the class after objecting to "transgender indoctrination."

While there were immediate calls to terminate the professor in question, Welsh was recorded telling an upset student, "Well, that's not happening."

On Sept. 9, 2025, Welsh moved to terminate McCoul's employment.

However, calls for investigations into Welsh's handling of the situation, as well as Texas A&M's curriculum surrounding LGBT and DEI studies, persisted even after the dean, Mark Zoran, and the head of the affected department, Emily Johansen, were removed from administrative duties.

Earlier this month, Harmeet Dhillon, Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the Department of Justice, tweeted that the DOJ would also investigate.

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atmtws said:

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Fossum FTW!

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