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A faculty panel determined in late September that McCoul\u2019s academic freedom was violated.<\/p>\n
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Texas A&M University will not reinstate Melissa McCoul, the instructor fired in September after a video showing a student confronting her over a gender identity lesson went viral, The <\/em>New York Times<\/em> reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n In a Dec. 19 memo that McCoul\u2019s lawyer Amanda Reichek shared with the Times<\/em>, the Texas A&M system\u2019s vice chancellor for academic affairs, James Hallmark, wrote that he had \u201cdetermined that Dr. McCoul\u2019s dismissal was based upon good cause.\u201d<\/p>\n A faculty panel determined in late September that McCoul\u2019s academic freedom was violated and that former Texas A&M president Mark Welsh flouted proper termination processes when he fired her.<\/p>\n McCoul was \u201cdisappointed by the university\u2019s unexplained decision to uphold her termination but looks forward to pursuing her First Amendment, due process and breach of contract claims in court very soon,\u201d Reichek said in a statement to the Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A faculty panel determined in late September that McCoul\u2019s academic freedom was violated. McKenna Baker\/iStock\/Getty Images Texas A&M University will not reinstate Melissa McCoul, the instructor fired in September after a video showing a student confronting her over a gender identity lesson went viral, The New York Times reported.\u00a0 In a Dec. 19 memo that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39516,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[10474,4170,20651,6216,7838,1010,3982],"class_list":{"0":"post-39515","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-education","8":"tag-fired","9":"tag-gender","10":"tag-instructor","11":"tag-lesson","12":"tag-reinstate","13":"tag-texas","14":"tag-wont"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}