The university announced the hiring of Kathleen McElroy, a Black former New York Times journalist, but later backtracked on its offer amid conservative pushback. A faculty organization at Texas A ...

Kathleen McElroy, who had recently served as the director of the University of Texas’s School of Journalism, was thrilled to embark on a new assignment: running a similar program at her alma ...

Esteemed Black journalist Kathleen McElroy, caught in ‘DEI hysteria,’ rejects Texas A&M offer to teach. McElroy says it appears not much has changed at Texas A&M University since she was a ...

For Texas A&M University, Kathleen McElroy must have looked like a perfect fit. A tenured professor of journalism at the University of Texas at Austin, who had previously been an editor at the New ...

Kathleen McElroy in June, when she was named director of Texas A&M University’s Department of Communication and Journalism. Credit... Meredith Seaver/College Station Eagle, via Associated Press ...

Texas A&M will pursue settlement with Kathleen McElroy after botched recruitment. Texas A&M allegedly toned down McElroy's job contract in response to "outside" worries about her prior work at The ...

Texas A&M announces it will pay Kathleen McElroy $1 million and concludes that the university’s prior president, despite protestations to the contrary, played a key role in the mess. The Texas A&M ...

Renowned journalist Kathleen McElroy made headlines after Texas A&M University reneged on a high-profile job offer. She’s still processing that experience.

Kathleen McElroy, a professor of journalism at the University of Texas at Austin’s School of Journalism and a graduate of Texas A&M, in her apartment in Austin on July 11, 2023.

Since these events, Texas A&M has agreed to pay $1 million to Dr. Kathleen McElroy as part of a settlement agreement over the tumultuous hiring process. Additionally, ...

Kathleen McElroy, Class of 1981, is announced as the Department of Communication and Journalism’s Director at a ceremony Tuesday in front of Texas A&M’s Academic Building.

McElroy ended up steering clear of the campus that once courted her, too. Here are four key moments that reveal the many players who sought to have their say in her hiring at Texas A&M. The Early ...