Texas A&M to revive journalism program...or not

People have to make decisions based on what is in their best interest. I think McElroy might wonder how much job security she would have in College Station. She can quite reasonably decide that risks of leaving a secure position in Austin is not worth the risk of getting bounced in a year or two at A@M.

I wish more journalists had the same opportunities McElroy has.

 

My question is more with the notion that a university should revive an academic program dedicated to a dying industry. No problem with the instructor/administrator. If you’re going to be tasked with leading a degree program and asked to uproot, you should get some protection.
Would you leave a job in which you have some protection for one in which you have none?

 

Some context about Banks and A&M: She also killed the print edition of the student newspaper and only allowed a limited reprieve after there was public backlash from the move.

Breaking: President Banks demands The Battalion stop printing

 

goin' great!

Race was a factor in Black professor’s failed hiring, Texas A&M department head says

 

Probably a bad example since they're all deceased (but one), but it's easier to brag when your J-school alumni include Lady Bird Johnson, Walter Cronkite, Bill Moyers (who I discovered is still alive at age 89) and Liz Carpenter.

Aggie's only response that even moves the needle a little is righty talker Neal Boortz and a local regular guest columnist at my old paper.

Not a T-sipper, just like to gig 'em every once in a while.

 

Loved Moyers and always will.
Never heard a better speaker. Was sometimes cranky and often hard to please (so I've read) but seemed sincere in his journalistic convictions.

 

This is the main issue. I get the funding aspect of it. But some admins are gleeful about the paper failing because it's no longer an entity that can criticize them.

It can be their business to not help out student papers and run them out. It can also be ours to not shed any tears when they lose their jobs.

 

Thanks for the lawsuit.

I do find it somewhat funny that in the rivalry between the two schools, A&M turned down one of its own and had the chance to take her away from Texas and people were still against it.