VICTORIA, Texas -- A shift to daily on-campus requirements has Texas A&M University-Victoria faculty in an "uproar" at the start of this semester after years of remote work that allowed many of them to live more than two hours away, officials from a professor advocacy group said.

The new policy requires employees to work in person five days and 40 hours a week this school year, which officials said puts the campus in compliance with state law.

University officials sent an email in June indicating that all full-time faculty would need to be in person on the Victoria campus during the workweek or obtain written permission to work remotely, representatives from the Texas chapter of the American Association of University Professors-American Federation of Teachers said.