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Getty Images By Rayna Reid Rayford ·Updated July 24, 2023
The president of Texas A&M University, Katherine Banks, resigned after the celebrated hiring of a Black journalist at one of the biggest universities in the country fell apart due to pushback over her diversity and inclusion work.
Banks departs after serving two years as president of the College Station’s 70,000 student-campus. In her resignation letter, Bankssaid that she decided to retire immediately because “The
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