UT-Austin Department Consolidation Infuriates Leftists

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" In a sweeping restructure, the University of Texas at Austin will consolidate four departments, including African and African Diaspora Studies and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, college leaders told department heads Thursday."

"The departments, along with American Studies as well as Mexican American and Latino Studies, will be consolidated into a Social and Cultural Analysis department. UT will separately consolidate Germanic Studies, Slavic and Eurasian Studies, and French and Italian into a new Department of European and Eurasian Studies. "

" More than 800 students are pursuing majors, minors and graduate degrees across the departments, according to Save UT, a faculty group opposed to the merger."
(Out of 55,000 students-? My comment)

https://www.texastribune.org/2026/02/12/texas-ut-austin-consolidate-race-gender/

And the (actually peaceful) protests started. I guess they leared from the anti-Israel protests.


It's almost like you can't just sit through four years of make believe college indoctrination courses and expect to get a degree at Texas anymore.
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" More than 800 students are pursuing majors, minors and graduate degrees across the departments, according to Save UT, a faculty group opposed to the merger."
(Out of 55,000 students-? My comment)

So, 1.5% of the student body. Nobody else will notice.
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Imagine sending your kid to sipland to study "Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies."

Talk about failed parents.
Ellis Wyatt
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I love it.

Hook 'em!
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Why does the opposition believe the mergers are bad? Logically, everyone of those programs should be extinguished.
akm91
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The scary part is there are 800 students in those majors!
Rapier108
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akm91 said:

The scary part is there are 800 students in those majors!

Actually surprising it is that small given tu's far leftist lean.
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Rapier108 said:

akm91 said:

The scary part is there are 800 students in those majors!

Actually surprising it is that small given tu's far leftist lean.


To tu's credit, their leadership does a pretty good job of abiding by the spirit of the law when it comes to **** like this. (Compare their culture to similar schools in other states).

Their problem is they are a magnet for leftist morons.
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akm91 said:

The scary part is there are 800 students in those majors!


I wonder how many of them are athletes...
MelvinUdall
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What does one do with one of those degrees?
torrid
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All into one Department of Bull-*****
Ellis Wyatt
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Like A&M, we have many majors that are not political at all and are actually educational and beneficial to society. And our leadership over the last decade has been more conservative than A&M's. It is what it is.

I remember one "political-ish" comment in all of my classes in the early-mid 90s, and that was made by a gay Mexican Spanish teaching grad student. The rest was just straightforward education.
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MelvinUdall said:

What does one do with one of those degrees?

Make people coffee.
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MelvinUdall said:

What does one do with one of those degrees?

Graduate then complain on TikTok that they can't find a job that will pay them $200/k per year like they anticipated.
Teslag
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One of three things...

1. be in corporate DEI compliance as an extension of HR
2. teach this **** to other idiots

and probably

3. pay back a **** load in debt because you can't land 1. or 2.
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More than 800 students are pursuing majors, minors and graduate degrees across the departments

So how many students are in the Business Dept. ? ? Education Dept. ? ? Engineering Dept. ? ? Probably a lot more than 800 students.

800 Students spread across 5-6 Degree Programs is inefficient and wasting resources. This should have been done no matter what they were teaching.

Personally I think that these programs are probably useless a waste of time and should be eliminated.
But tu you do you.
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MelvinUdall said:

What does one do with one of those degrees?

Teach other people the same degree
Science Denier
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Do gender studies degrees come with degrees in Biology?
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MelvinUdall said:

What does one do with one of those degrees?

They get jobs in teaching other morons willing to sit through that tripe.
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Ellis Wyatt said:

Like A&M, we have many majors that are not political at all and are actually educational and beneficial to society. And our leadership over the last decade has been more conservative than A&M's. It is what it is.

I remember one "political-ish" comment in all of my classes in the early-mid 90s, and that was made by a gay Mexican Spanish teaching grad student. The rest was just straightforward education.


100%. And it infuriates me. John Sharp. Good riddance.
Ellis Wyatt
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One year at Texas, I had a black roommate. Computer engineering student. Good guy, and we got along great. He took an African American studies class as an elective one semester. He would come home and tell me what he learned in class lots of days. It was trivia, at best.

I felt bad that stuff like that is packaged as meaningful education. It's great to have the opportunity to learn the factoids, but there was nothing valuable about it. And it certainly shouldn't be something used to divide us.
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Teslag said:

One of three things...

1. be in corporate DEI compliance as an extension of HR
2. teach this **** to other idiots

and probably

3. pay back a **** load in debt because you can't land 1. or 2.


I'm thinking we just found the first full time job

for the new CLAUDE AI augentic bots
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Elections are when people find out what politicians stand for, and politicians find out what people will fall for.
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The unfortunate reality is these "disciplines" are nothing more than political movements. They are all born from critical theory. Good riddance to the lot of them.
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MelvinUdall said:

What does one do with one of those degrees?

Work for the mythical organization called ANTIFA.
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Maroon Dawn
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Just Consolidate them all into the "Unemployment Studies"
fc2112
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now the Department of Freakonomics
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akm91 said:

The scary part is there are 800 students in those majors!

What's scarier is... how many of them are on full ride scholarships?

Or even worse, how many hundreds of thousands of dollars in student loans are they taking out before landing their $10/hr careers.
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akm91 said:

The scary part is there are 800 students in those majors!

I am trying to wrap my head around there being 33+ hours of classes in those subjects to even qualify as a major.
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So what are they actually opposing? It doesn't sound like they're really changing the degree plans at all.

Consolidation of a number of degree plans under a single department shouldn't have a lot of effect on each degree plan itself, as far as I can see. So it seems we have a bunch of people protesting just to have something to do. "Look at us! We're mad!" But... we knew that already.
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MelvinUdall said:

What does one do with one of those degrees?


Become simultaneously angry and useless.

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I'm sure each department comes with a bevy of administrators, support staff, etc. Now that they're all together, in theory, many of those positions should be eliminated as they could be filled by the staff equivalent to one department. I'm guessing that's their main gripe.

And I'm willing to bet that most of the support staff positions in these useless degrees are filled by people who previously got the same said useless degrees.
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And as far as what one does with those degrees, while barista and other similar service industry jobs are likely common, you know a good chunk of those are going on to be professional agitators, indoctrinators, "community organizers", etc. If they're really lucky, they'll land a job in government where they can spread their cancer on the tax payers' dime.
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Consolidation of a number of degree plans under a single department shouldn't have a lot of effect on each degree plan itself, as far as I can see.



May as well have some playing "Name The New Department".

Department of Unmarketable Studies
Department of Student Loan Black Holes

Anyone? Anyone?

Beuller?
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MelvinUdall said:

What does one do with one of those degrees?


"So let me read your order back to you to make sure I got it right…"
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