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Texas A&M University – San Antonio
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Texas A&M University-San Antonio: Professor Dismissed After Publication of Critical Article
June 1, 2012
On May 16, 2012, hours after an article was printed in which adjunct lecturer Sissy Bradford criticized the university, Bradford was notified by interim School of Arts and Sciences William S. Bush that she was not being offered any courses to teach in for the fall 2012 semester. In February 2012, however, Bradford had been… Read more
Texas Students, FIRE’s Joe Cohn is Coming to a Campus Near You
October 6, 2014
Yeehaw! Joe Cohn, FIRE’s Legislative and Policy Director, will be traveling across the Lone Star State for a rootin’ tootin’ Texan campus tour. Students and faculty at or near the University of Houston, University of Texas at San Antonio, University of Texas at Austin, Texas State University at San Marcos, and Texas A&M are invited… Read more
Texas A&M Student Body President Vetoes Opt-Out Bill for Funding Student Organizations
April 11, 2013
AggieLand Water Tower – Wikimedia Commons On April 3, the Texas A&M University Student Senate approved a measure that would allow students to choose not to fund specific student groups. Specifically, the bill allowed "students who object, for religious and moral purposes, to the use of their student fees and tuition to fund various services to opt… Read more
Funding Victory For Religious and Political Student Groups at Texas A&M
November 21, 2012
We’re pleased to note an important victory for the free speech rights and freedom of association of religious and political student organizations at Texas A&M University. Thanks to a settlement (PDF) reached with Texas A&M, a lawsuit brought by the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) on behalf of the Texas Aggie Conservatives has ensured that religious… Read more
Lecturer’s Termination at Texas A&M – San Antonio: Who Knew What, and When?
October 4, 2012
Over the summer, FIRE weighed in on the case of Sissy Bradford, an instructor who had taught in the sociology and criminology departments at Texas A&M University–San Antonio (TAMU–SA) before being abruptly notified in May that she was no longer assigned the fall slate of classes she had been scheduled to teach. Bradford’s termination attracted… Read more
Silencing Political Debate: Election Season Arrives at Texas A&M
July 16, 2012
With election season heating up just as fast as the summer weather, it seems that the urge to shut down political speech on campus has once again reared its ugly head. The most recent case in a long line of election–related controversies over the years is taking place at Texas A&M University, where student organizations… Read more
Texas A&M At It Again
June 22, 2012
Texas A&M University (TAMU) cannot seem to keep itself out of the spotlight, and once again it’s for all the wrong reasons. As Torch readers will surely recall, two weeks ago FIRE wrote a letter to Texas A&M University–San Antonio (a branch campus) after it dismissed an adjunct professor mere hours after her criticism of… Read more
Texas A&M-San Antonio Claims Prof’s Dismissal a “Coincidence
June 15, 2012
As I wrote recently, FIRE has been monitoring the case of Sissy Bradford, a lecturer in criminology at Texas A&M University-San Antonio (TAMU-SA) who was suspiciously relieved of her next semester’s teaching duties. Why is it suspicious? Well, because Bradford was let go within hours of the publication of an article that aired her criticisms… Read more
Hours After Publication of Critical Article, Texas A&M San Antonio Dismisses Professor
May 31, 2012
The story of the dismissal of Texas A&M University-San Antonio (TAMU-SA) lecturer Sissy Bradford has garnered much attention—and for good reason. Within hours of the publication of an article in which Bradford criticized the university’s handling of threats against her, Bradford was informed that she would not be teaching at the university for the coming… Read more