Texas A&M has instructed faculty to remove certain readings from core classes during a broader course review that imposes restrictions on materials addressing race and gender. The university specifically told a philosophy professor to excise units on Plato’s Symposium amid new teaching guidelines, a move that has drawn immediate criticism from faculty and academic freedom advocates. The developments signal a wider trend of institutions revisiting syllabi to comply with new state or institutional limits on classroom content, raising questions about curricular autonomy, review processes, and how universities balance compliance with scholarly integrity. The story highlights how course reviews can translate into concrete classroom changes in humanities curricula. (Higher ed reporting; campus statements.)