"At this time, no changes to faculty or staff positions, reporting structures, or job responsibilities are planned," Mario Torres, dean of UTSA's College of Education and Human Development, wrote in an email, according to the Express-News. He described the change as "an exciting opportunity" that would lead to a "more prosperous future" for the academic programs. He said a task force composed of faculty, students and staff would help shape the new department.
The move to cancel gender studies is explicitly justified as a way to comply with Donald Trump's executive order of last year titled Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government. That document makes the biological reality of sex a matter not of science but of law.
The assignment in question was supposed to be a reaction to an academic article on gender. But the paper written by junior Samantha Fulnecky failed to provide empirical evidence or even citations for her own beliefs, resulting in her failing grade. The essay was turned in on November 9. The teaching assistant - whose name Truthout is withholding due to privacy and harassment concerns - gave Fulnecky a 0 out of 25 points, stating that the student's editorializing was not accompanied by an evidence-based approach.
In a meeting with English Department faculty on Oct. 22, TCU provost Floyd Wormley cited financial reasons for the change, asserting that political pressure "had no influence" on the decision to merge the Women and Gender Studies and Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies Departments into the English Department. But some faculty aren't convinced. They say the move follows a decline in institutional support for the disciplines as the university faces immense pressure to eliminate any and all programming related to gender, race and ethnicity.
Tai Shani's artistic practice encompasses diverse media while engaging deeply with historical events and cultural forms, creating fantastical and utopian worlds infused with contemporary themes.
Adams emphasizes the gender associations that have developed alongside the growing size of hamburgers, correlating larger hamburgers with masculinity and power, while also highlighting the use of women in advertisements that promote these products. "Given the double entendre of big hamburgers standing in for erections, it is no surprise that some companies advertise their fare via women who can cram a hamburger... into their mouths." Such connections raise awareness of the cultural implications of our food choices and advertising strategies.
Scholars and victims, important as both are, risk viewing medieval Jews as a subordinate segment of Christian societyânot a thriving community that comprised part of a larger medieval world.
