Nov 17, 2023
Texas A&M has scrubbed job postings of illegal pseudo-DEI statements less than 24 hours after Blaze News broke the story exposing how the university was defying Republican Governor Greg Abbott's executive order banning the use of DEI statements. The Bush School of Government is hiring four tenure-track assistant professors. On Wednesday, the school was asking all candidates to provide a cover letter containing "past or planned contributions to advancing diversity" (available at the Wayback Machine). By Thursday, the job posting dropped the language relating to "advancing diversity" entirely. None of the other DEI requirements linked in Wednesday's article appear to have been changed. It isn't the first time Texas A&M brass have scrubbed the school's website of embarrassing and illegal activities. Last spring, A&M scrubbed its search committee manual of objectionable materials after it was exposed in a report by the Claremont Institute. Suddenly, the