UT Austin axes several ethnic, gender studies majors

The University of Texas at Austin will eliminate four majors—African and African diaspora studies; Mexican American and Latina/o studies; women’s and gender studies; and race, indigeneity and migration—as the university continues to overhaul its undergraduate curriculum and whittle down its ethnic and gender studies programs…. Danielle Clealand, interim chair of the SCA department, told faculty members on Tuesday that the provost’s office “rejected our proposal to keep our majors”