Some insight into what is going on with professors at West Point can be found in this Washington Post article, The Pentagon’s Culture Wars Strike West Point (paywall) as well as what West Point did to follow the orders of the Secretary of Defense:

“Four days after he was sworn in as defense secretary, Pete Hegseth directed the military service academies to scrub their curriculum of ideologies President Trump had deemed “divisive,” “un-American” and “irrational.”

MS NOTE: See SECDEF reminds Academy Supes: “These are MILITARY ACADEMIES, not civilian universities.”

Hours later, department heads at West Point sent civilian and military professors emails asking for their course syllabuses.

Some professors said they assumed the school would defend its academic program. Instead, the U.S. Military Academy’s leaders initiated a schoolwide push to remove any readings that focused on race, gender or the darker moments of American history, according to interviews with more than a dozen West Point civilian and military staff.

Most spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak with the media without the academy’s approval.

Two classes — an English and a history course — were scrapped midsemester for noncompliance with the new policy.

MS NOTE: Perhaps they were these:

EN352: POWER AND DIFFERENCE
This course examines the complex relationship between language and power through in-depth study of texts. The course focus may include but is not limited to Indigenous literature, Asian-American literature, African-American literature, and LGBTQ literature.

HI461: TOPICS IN GENDER HISTORY
This course examines the development of gender relations, concepts, and roles in historical perspective. Topics may include gender in the military and warfare, the European experience, the American experience, or international comparisons of gender. This course will include an exploration of the way in which history has been written; including examining the changing interpretations, traditions, methods, and frameworks of historians.

West Point 2025 Diversity and Inclusion Studies Courses

A history professor who leads a course on genocide was instructed not to mention atrocities committed against Native Americans, according to several academy officials. The English department purged works by well-known Black authors, such as Toni Morrison, James Baldwin and Ta-Nehisi Coates, the officials said.

Mr. Hegseth’s order, which was issued in January, and West Point’s response have shaken the academy and led many civilian and military professors to question the school’s commitment to academic freedom.

At least two tenured professors have resigned in protest in recent days.

The academy’s leaders have long had to balance conflicting demands. West Point is a degree-granting institution, and its commitment to academic freedom is codified both in law and its own regulations.

It is also part of the Defense Department, and its leaders are obligated to follow legal orders from the president and the Pentagon.

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Mr. Hegseth’s order and the changes it triggered have forced West Point professors and administrators to wrestle with a series of difficult questions. Should they resist Mr. Hegseth’s order or resign in protest?

Its language was confoundingly vague. Were there ways to work around it? What was best for the cadets, for the academy, for the Army?

Some long-serving leaders at the academy have chosen to quit.

In early March, Christopher Barth, West Point’s senior librarian, announced that he was leaving after 14 years for a job at another college. Mr. Barth’s counterpart at the U.S. Naval Academy had already been told to remove 381 books from the campus library that ran afoul of Mr. Hegseth’s order. Mr. Barth had also been told to identify titles that potentially violated the order, West Point officials said.

He told his staff that he had been reading the American Library Association’s ethics guidelines. “I’ve already compromised them several times,” Mr. Barth said, according to three people who were at the meeting. “I can’t do it anymore.”

Graham Parsons, a tenured philosophy professor, similarly wrote in a New York Times guest essay published on Thursday that Mr. Hegseth’s order and the changes that followed at West Point had politicized the academy and made it impossible for him to do his job.

“I am ashamed to be associated with the academy in its current form,” he wrote.

A tenured professor in the English department who had been at West Point for nearly a decade hit her breaking point in late April when a university administrator told her that she was no longer permitted to teach an essay by the novelist Alice Walker.

MS: Wonder if it was this professor? West Point Professor writes Leftist, anti-military book disparaging WW2 Vets

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The professor said she knew her resignation was unlikely to make a difference at West Point. “I could set myself on fire in the middle of the parade grounds and it would be forgotten about tomorrow,” she recalled telling her bosses.

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Dr. Parsons, the philosophy professor who recently resigned in protest, said he spent February and March trying to figure out what he should do.

On April 10, he accepted a one-year visiting professor job at nearby Vassar College. The move meant that he would lose the economic security that came with a tenured position. It also meant leaving West Point, a place that had been his professional home for 13 years.

The next day he told his supervisors he was quitting. He expected a difficult conversation. “I was very tense,” he recalled.

But his supervisors did not ask him why he was giving up his tenured position for a temporary job, he said, and he did not volunteer an explanation.

“I think there’s just a lot of desire to avoid the reality of what’s happening here,” Dr. Parsons said.

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