A Texas A&M University philosophy professor who challenged limits on race and gender content in curriculum is resigning after a ban that prevented him from teaching a Plato excerpt in an introductory course. Martin Peterson’s resignation follows reports that the A&M system’s Board of Regents restricted what faculty can teach on race and gender. Peterson accepted an endowed chair at Southern Methodist University, where he said state overreach will be less likely to affect his teaching. He told reporters the censorship is ongoing, noting additional required slide revisions beyond the Plato policy and arguing that limiting faculty authority collapses the university’s core mission. Peterson is described as the third philosophy professor to depart or decline a position due to similar concerns, underscoring the growing friction between system-level compliance directives and faculty governance over academic content.