COLLEGE STATION, Texas (KBTX) - Texas A&M President Mark A. Welsh has fired English Professor Melissa McCoul after a video surfaced Monday showing a clash between a student and Professor McCoul over curriculum in a children’s literature course.

In a statement released Tuesday evening , Welsh stressed the firing was related to academic responsibility, not the professor’s academic freedom. Welsh also announced each of the flagship university’s 16,000 course sections would be audited to ensure their content aligns with catalog descriptions moving forward.

Welsh announced late Monday that he had directed the reassignment of the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and the head of the English department from their administrative duties as a result of the incident.

“This afternoon, fol

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