#higher-education-politics

#higher-education-politics

A Texas A&M University professor who was fired last year after a controversy over a classroom video that showed a student objecting to a children's literature lesson about gender identity sued the school on Wednesday, alleging the university violated her rights by bowing to political pressure calling for her ouster. Melissa McCoul was a senior lecturer in the English department with over a decade of teaching experience.

This is absolutely devastating for the faculty and colleagues who have done so much important and groundbreaking research and teaching in this area, and it's really devastating for the state of Texas," Dworkin said. "To have policies like this that allow politicians to determine what wonderful, brilliant students are allowed to study, is a travesty.

has been an explicitly political show from the beginning, but recent seasons have leaned harder into real-world parallels, especially with Homelander's ascent to governing power in the season-four finale. It was a bit unsettling last year to witness the supe-supremacist speech where Homelander vowed to take revenge on America's "enemies" and ordered his puppet, incoming president Calhoun, to declare martial law.