University of Texas to merge seven liberal arts departments into two new ones

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https://www.kvue.com/article/news/education/university-of-texas/ut-austin-consolidation-liberal-arts-gender-studies/269-bb26a1ec-6520-4c51-a8ff-fc36c0b4baf8

University of Texas to merge seven liberal arts departments into two new ones
In a campuswide email Thursday, President Jim Davis said the changes stem from “a combination of factors, including size and student demand."
Author: Kate Norum, Daniel Perreault
Published: 12:52 PM CST February 12, 2026

AUSTIN, Texas — The University of Texas at Austin will consolidate several departments within its College of Liberal Arts as part of a major academic restructuring.

The departments of African and African Diaspora Studies, American Studies, Mexican American and Latina/Latino Studies, and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies will combine to create the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis.

The departments of French and Italian, Germanic Studies, and Slavic and Eurasian Studies will form the Department of European and Eurasian Studies.

“I don't know what that will entail. I don't know what that means for the future of our degree programs,” Lisa Moore, the Chair of the Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at UT Austin, said. “I certainly hope we can preserve them with their current names and reputations, because those have been hard fought for over decades.”

“Terms like black, Latino, being a woman writer, gay, transgender, these words matter, and that's why they're in the titles of our departments,” Moore said. “It's an assertion that these are human experiences that are worthy of study. Shutting them down, renaming them, erasing them is rolling back a century of progress in expanding our understanding of who gets to count as human in the humanities.”'

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