"The A&M Board of Regents came to want a more explicitly conservative leader who would shut down controversy before it reared its head, as members grew weary from the steady drumbeat of online posts accusing the university of embracing liberal ideology."

https://www.texastribune.org/2025/12/10/texas-a-m-mark-welsh-regents-abbott-fired/

No problem with that. I also want a more explicitly conservative leader who will shut down controversy before it rears its head. I would love nothing more than A&M to remain out of the headlines for stupid DEI reasons or other embarrassing bs.

Also screw the Texas tribune. Trash publication.

guttnic1648 said:

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"The A&M Board of Regents came to want a more explicitly conservative leader who would shut down controversy before it reared its head, as members grew weary from the steady drumbeat of online posts accusing the university of embracing liberal ideology."

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Duh! Why on earth is that new news?

guttnic1648 said:

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"The A&M Board of Regents came to want a more explicitly conservative leader who would shut down controversy before it reared its head, as members grew weary from the steady drumbeat of online posts accusing the university of embracing liberal ideology."

https://www.texastribune.org/2025/12/10/texas-a-m-mark-welsh-regents-abbott-fired/

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sounds like Texags came through again! you know those "members" were reading this forum on the issue

Are we supposed to have sympathy for our former president?

Amusing when a liberal rag(amongst the rest of the 95%) liberal rags who absolutely smother the folks with lies and propaganda, complains about any right wing bias. Oh how unfair!

It's a damn shame Welsh just couldn't seem to shake off that Obama virus, despite being a decent guy otherwise. He is who he is.

Another one bites the dust.

The guy allowed (maybe even encouraged) DEI at TAMU after orders were handed down to stop the bull***** He got exposed. People knew he was a fraud long before the video came out, but the video showed that he was a talker and not a doer.

Welsh and his defenders should leave well enough alone. Texas a&m is much better off without a political leader.

Pretty good article

But if the Tribune was hoping to garner sympathy for the former President, they probably did the opposite

Sounds like alarms were going off before he was even hired

This quote from early in the article

""Mark is pretty moderate," said an influential A&M donor and alum who asked not to be named because of their continued relationship with the school. "I think that he was just like many of us in being naive about just how much the far-right was going to come after [DEI]. It wasn't going to go away, until it was too late.""

Yeah ok

Naive… horse hockey. IF he was that out of touch, he should not have that job. In the first place.

Brush Country Ag said:

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Naive… horse hockey. IF he was that out of touch, he should not have that job. In the first place.

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I wasn't clear

I think the quote is bull**it

"the far right"

Laughable

Captain Pablo said:

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This quote from early in the article

""Mark is pretty moderate," said an influential A&M donor and alum who asked not to be named because of their continued relationship with the school. "I think that he was just like many of us in being naive about just how much the far-right was going to come after [DEI]. It wasn't going to go away, until it was too late.""

Yeah ok

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It's amazing how opposing racial discrimination is now far right.

guttnic1648 said:

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"The A&M Board of Regents came to want a more explicitly conservative leader who would shut down controversy before it reared its head, as members grew weary from the steady drumbeat of online posts accusing the university of embracing liberal ideology."

https://www.texastribune.org/2025/12/10/texas-a-m-mark-welsh-regents-abbott-fired/

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Unforgiven94 said:

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Also screw the Texas tribune. Trash publication.

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They were. Even on this board.

Captain Pablo said:

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This quote from early in the article

""Mark is pretty moderate," said an influential A&M donor and alum who asked not to be named because of their continued relationship with the school. "I think that he was just like many of us in being naive about just how much the far-right was going to come after [DEI]. It wasn't going to go away, until it was too late.""

Yeah ok

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One thing I noticed about that article is the folks that complained about A&M moving too far left were not afraid to be quoted in the article (shout out to Matt Poling.). The folks who wanted to defend the leftism stayed anonymous.

Grow some balls, lefties.

"If DEI is wro-ong I wanna be far right…"
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Not a fan of the TT generally, but I view them like I do Texas Monthly - worth picking through the liberal garbage for a good article here and there.

This particular article gives me hope. Our beloved institution has been headed left in a variety of ways over the past decades and it finally seems like a correction is happening. This article chronicles the exact kinds of things many of us have hoped were happening in the background. Let's hope it continues under our current board and leadership. So far … so good.

Shout out to the Rudder Association for shining a light where it needs to be shined.

Should have known about the guy before they hired him.

guttnic1648 said:

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"The A&M Board of Regents came to want a more explicitly conservative leader who would shut down controversy before it reared its head, as members grew weary from the steady drumbeat of online posts accusing the university of embracing liberal ideology."

https://www.texastribune.org/2025/12/10/texas-a-m-mark-welsh-regents-abbott-fired/

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Maybe stop giving us one pro DEI president after another then?

Unforgiven94 said:

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No problem with that. I also want a more explicitly conservative leader who will shut down controversy before it rears its head. I would love nothing more than A&M to remain out of the headlines for stupid DEI reasons or other embarrassing bs.

Also screw the Texas tribune. Trash publication.

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The Tribune is wrong again, that is not news.

joelshaw85 said:

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Should have known about the guy before they hired him.

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We did.

Immense anonymous white guilt persists per the article.

I read the article and I felt like one thing the author was trying to point out, aside from the President Welch situation, was the difficulty at institutions trying to follow federal mandates (which were quite liberal) and the time continuum where there was a backlash from conservatives in Texas. I was naive that Governor Abbott was so influential in what happenedI guess I thought he appointed the regents and they had oversight/control over administration. It seems he is possibly way more concerned about how "leftest" A&M is and not as concerned about his own Alma Mater.
I see college as a place for students to have their perspectives challenged. I am not afraid of a moderate. I am more concerned about never seeing, reading, or hearing anything outside of a bubble. Sometimes being exposed to other ideas strengthens your own views.
Blast away and call me names.

lbcshort said:

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I read the article and I felt like one thing the author was trying to point out, aside from the President Welch situation, was the difficulty at institutions trying to follow federal mandates (which were quite liberal) and the time continuum where there was a backlash from conservatives in Texas. I was naive that Governor Abbott was so influential in what happenedI guess I thought he appointed the regents and they had oversight/control over administration. It seems he is possibly way more concerned about how "leftest" A&M is and not as concerned about his own Alma Mater.
I see college as a place for students to have their perspectives challenged. I am not afraid of a moderate. I am more concerned about never seeing, reading, or hearing anything outside of a bubble. Sometimes being exposed to other ideas strengthens your own views.
Blast away and call me names.

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Welsh lost his job for being a duplicitous jackass not willing to defend a student from a lecturer and the self-righteous academics. And he was awarded with a huge payday. Screw him and any duplicitous jackass.

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"The A&M Board of Regents came to want a more explicitly conservative leader who would shut down controversy before it reared its head, as members grew weary from the steady drumbeat of online posts accusing the university of embracing liberal ideology."

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And?

Politics go with the territory.
Part of problem, I think, was him being a General and everyone hopping to his word. Doesn't work out here.
Also, if you aren't the right fit, you ought to have enough sense to move along.

Is this reply to my post?

lbcshort said:

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I read the article and I felt like one thing the author was trying to point out, aside from the President Welch situation, was the difficulty at institutions trying to follow federal mandates (which were quite liberal) and the time continuum where there was a backlash from conservatives in Texas. I was naive that Governor Abbott was so influential in what happenedI guess I thought he appointed the regents and they had oversight/control over administration. It seems he is possibly way more concerned about how "leftest" A&M is and not as concerned about his own Alma Mater.
I see college as a place for students to have their perspectives challenged. I am not afraid of a moderate. I am more concerned about never seeing, reading, or hearing anything outside of a bubble. Sometimes being exposed to other ideas strengthens your own views.
Blast away and call me names.

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No need to call names. I agree college should be a place where young people get exposed to ideas across the political spectrum, from far left to far right. It's an eye opener to the diversity of the human race. Hopefully they learn through their experience that different isn't necessarily wrong, it's just different.

The issue that has caused hard pushback from conservative alum is that most colleges -- including A&M -- supported full display of far left ideology but not the corresponding far right. One was "good and tolerant" while the other was characterized as "hateful and dark." Many, many examples of right-of-center speakers, clubs, opinions, etc. being shut down or shouted over on campuses, with both implicit and explicit support from administrators.

That is crap, and it needed to be called out. More emphatically, the people who allowed it to exist need to be removed and replaced with administrators who embrace the opportunity for students to see the full range of human expression and make their own choices about how they want to live their life. Tolerance is only real if it applies to everyone.

Tailgate88 said:

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Not a fan of the TT generally, but I view them like I do Texas Monthly - worth picking through the liberal garbage for a good article here and there.

This particular article gives me hope. Our beloved institution has been headed left in a variety of ways over the past decades and it finally seems like a correction is happening.

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Thankfully, leadership is coming from the Governor, Lt. Governor, and Attorney General, whatever you may think of them. Their influence, along with Donald Trump's, has allowed leaders to lead. I don't really think the board has changed much.

Sadly, Welsh was either not interested in apolitical education or he didn't have the guts to take a stand for it. I imagine he wasn't interested.

Captain Pablo said:

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This quote from early in the article

""Mark is pretty moderate," said an influential A&M donor and alum who asked not to be named because of their continued relationship with the school. "I think that he was just like many of us in being naive about just how much the far-right was going to come after [DEI]. It wasn't going to go away, until it was too late.""

Yeah ok

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I'd lay dollars to donuts this quote is from Albritton. He's basically a Commie and 100% behind all DEI and other leftist degeneracy.

It would not surprise me if Albritton was the one who is behind this propaganda piece.

Thank's pal. The next time we need a quote from the Texas Tribune, aka MSNBC of Texas print journalism, we'll let you know.

btw don't give up your day job.

In reply to lbcshort 8:38a

lbcshort said:

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I was naive that Governor Abbott was so influential in what happenedI guess I thought he appointed the regents and they had oversight/control over administration. It seems he is possibly way more concerned about how "leftest" A&M is and not as concerned about his own Alma Mater.

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Well, I hate to tell you this, but the leadership at Texas was more conservative than the leadership at A&M after Greg Fenves left Texas a few years back. Michael Young is a liberal and then Welsh.

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I see college as a place for students to have their perspectives challenged. I am not afraid of a moderate. I am more concerned about never seeing, reading, or hearing anything outside of a bubble. Sometimes being exposed to other ideas strengthens your own views.
Blast away and call me names.

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The students were not being challenged. They were being assaulted with rampant leftism. Instructors were not allowing opposing views, and in fact some students were even punished for them. This is not fear on the part of conservatives, it's radical leftism in violation of the law, and it has no place in public education. Welsh got himself fired, and that is exactly what should have happened for the good of Texas A&M.

Agree!

lbcshort said:

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I read the article and I felt like one thing the author was trying to point out, aside from the President Welch situation, was the difficulty at institutions trying to follow federal mandates (which were quite liberal) and the time continuum where there was a backlash from conservatives in Texas. I was naive that Governor Abbott was so influential in what happenedI guess I thought he appointed the regents and they had oversight/control over administration. It seems he is possibly way more concerned about how "leftest" A&M is and not as concerned about his own Alma Mater.
I see college as a place for students to have their perspectives challenged. I am not afraid of a moderate. I am more concerned about never seeing, reading, or hearing anything outside of a bubble. Sometimes being exposed to other ideas strengthens your own views.
Blast away and call me names.

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Some ideas are not worth being taught in the classroom though.

Like teaching a children's literature class where you tell future teachers that it is important to expose toddlers to transgender ideas while they are still young so that they have the opportunity to start hormone therapies while they are still pre-pubescent.

It's one thing to talk about transgenderism in a human sexuality class. It is another thing to provide a playbook to people learning about Children's literature on how to teach transgenderism to toddlers.

When you teach about the holocaust, you should be teaching about the evils of Nazism in a history or economics class, not how to construct a gas chamber in a chemistry class.

joelshaw85 said:

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Should have known about the guy before they hired him.

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Apparently, Abbott was VERY leary about this hire

We hired him anyway

Sip tried to save us from ourselves but we didn't listen