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Some States Eyeing More Extensive Anti-DEI Measures in Higher Education

In Arizona, the Freedom from Indoctrination Act is expected to go to a public referendum, the Goldwater Institute says.
Some States Eyeing More Extensive Anti-DEI Measures in Higher Education
Visitors walk along a pond behind the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library Center on the campus of Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, on Dec. 2, 2018. Scott Olson/Getty Images
Aaron Gifford
Aaron Gifford
2/4/2026|Updated: 2/4/2026
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The Women’s and Gender Studies major at Texas A&M will be phased out within three years, while six courses across various majors were canceled before classes resumed for the spring semester, the university announced.

Administrators said in a Jan. 30 news release that the instruction in question does not support the requirement under the university system’s new policy for academic integrity. In the past two months, 5,400 course syllabi were reviewed, and faculty members and department heads worked diligently to remove race or gender ideology references in courses that are unrelated to those topics.

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