Texas A&M University System regents on Thursday required professors to receive approval from the school president to discuss some race and gender topics, tightening rules months after a viral video of a student confronting an instructor over her lessons threw the flagship campus into upheaval.

The new policy will apply to all of the universities within the system, not just the flagship campus in College Station. Some of the other school affected include the Fort Worth-based law school, Tarleton State University in Stephenville and East Texas A&M University in Commerce.

The policy states that no academic course "will advocate race or gender ideology, or topics related to sexual orientation or gender identity" unless approved in advance by a campus president.

The new policy appears to be

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