"Boomer" Welsh drops the hammer at Texas A&M

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An Update from President Mark A. Welsh III

General (Ret.) Mark A. Welsh III
President

September 9, 2025

Members of the Aggie Family,

I am reaching out today to follow up on a statement I distributed through social media yesterday regarding an ongoing issue with one of our 16,000 course sections. I directed the Provost to remove the College of Arts and Sciences Dean and English Department Head from their administrative positions.

This afternoon, following full consideration of the facts related to this situation, I directed the Provost to terminate the professor involved, effective immediately. Please understand that these decisions were mine alone and were not made lightly. While I cannot provide all the details at this time, I will share the following facts.

This summer, a children’s literature course contained content that did not align with any reasonable expectation of standard curriculum for the course. After this issue was raised, college and department leadership worked with students to offer alternative opportunities for students to complete the course, and made changes to ensure this course content does not continue in future semesters. At that time, I made it clear to our academic leadership that course content must match catalog descriptions for each and every one of our course sections.

However, I learned late yesterday that despite that directive, the college continued to teach content that was inconsistent with the published course description for another course this fall. As a result, I took the above administrative actions, and deans and department heads will conduct an audit of course offerings to ensure they align with the course descriptions.

Our students use the published information in the course catalog to make important decisions about the courses they take in pursuit of their degrees. If we allow different course content to be taught from what is advertised, we break trust with our students. When it comes to our academic offerings, we must keep faith with our students and with the state of Texas.

This isn’t about academic freedom; it’s about academic responsibility. Our degree programs and courses go through extensive approval processes, and we must ensure that what we ultimately deliver to students is consistent with what was approved.

Texas A&M is a great university — the best in the world. This is a place that honors academic freedom and academic responsibility. It’s also a place that unequivocally abides by state and federal law. Together, we will remain committed to our Aggie Core Values and providing our students with the education and experience they deserve.

r/mark
General (Ret.) Mark A. Welsh III, President

In short a professor was teaching content in a Children's Literature Class in direct opposition to a new Texas law that there are more than two genders.  A student objects and the prof tells them to leave.  Well done Boomer!

 

[Boomer6]

Here's hoping he can have the same effect on the morale of the violently liberal professors at A&M that he had on AD when he was CSAF!

[Clark Griswold]

[Moose]

The problem with being a political stooge is that eventually, you get caught playing both sides.

Welsh's posturing would hit different if he hadn't been such an ardent DEI advocate previously.

https://texasscorecard.com/state/texas-ams-interim-president-historically-promotes-dei/

[Chida]

I’ve “known” Welsh since 1999. He is a politician, tells people what they want to hear, and blows with the wind. How do you think he made 4 stars? He is in the same vein as John Edwards—real slick. 
Remember when he was lobbying for CSAF and he was saying he was going to fix USAF? Then he gets in office and does precisely nothing to improve the force. In fact he caused immeasurable damage by fast-forwarding the drawdown which directly caused the shortage a couple years later. 
Additionally he was commandant of USAFA during the time of the sexual assault scandal, but because the scandal came to light years later, he was never held to account and Gilbert and Dillinger were left holding the bag. 

[Moose]

7 minutes ago, Chida said:

 he was never held to account and Gilbert and Dillinger were left holding the bag. 

*Dallager

But I agree with you otherwise. There is not a shred of principle in this man. He did more damage to the USAF than most, compounded because he made us believe in him.

[Chida]

Yes, sorry it was Dallager. Poor old fool looked like he was fit for the memory care unit when he was hauled in front of Congress.