According to The Texas Tribune, the university said it cancelled Professor Leonard Bright’s course on “Ethics and Public Policy” because he failed repeated requests to provide adequate information for administrators to determine the course’s topics.
Teaching students left-leaning beliefs about race and gender is typical behavior for many academics, but the statewide crackdown came last year after the Board of Regents passed a policy to address it.
That vote by the regents came only after a student, also at Texas A&M, was booted from an English class last year after telling the professor her religious faith teaches there are only two genders.
AFN reported at the time, in the fall of 2025, the student filmed the encounter in a class for children’s literature.
The video of the incident went viral on social media, causing an uproar among Republican legislators, and the professor was eventually fired.
Professor Bright, who disputes the university’s version of events, has been quoted in the past stating that “diversity, equity and inclusion is a foundational principle of this country."
Sherry Sylvester, a senior fellow at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, told American Family News the new policy states a course can’t advocate for left-wing ideology.
"Open inquiry is critical on a college campus,” she agreed, “but what we know from these courses is that they are not about open inquiry. They are about indoctrination."
