With the crisis in learning standards, Texas should strengthen the learning-outcomes component of its definition of student success. Students deserve both a timely path to graduation and a degree that signifies genuine progress in learning.
Higher Education
Texas A&M is Right to End Women and Gender Studies
Some professors at Texas A&M have issued a letter expressing outrage over the recent decision to eliminate the women’s and gender studies degree programs. Revving up the dramatics, faculty who run the program warn that the university is dismantling this degree track at a “moment of incendiary dispute across cultural, social, and political difference on...
February 3, 2026