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Texas A&M University System regents on Thursday previewed new rules and procedures to audit all course content in the system’s 12 schools every semester, steps that were ordered after a student’s secret recordings of a professor discussing gender identity in a children’s literature course sent shockwaves through Texas’ higher education institutions.

“It’s a serious system-wide review of every course, every syllabus,” regent Sam Torn said Thursday at a meeting of the regents’ subcommittee on academic and student affairs. “We are examining the body of knowledge behind each degree, low-producing programs, workforce relevance and financial stewardship.”

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