Months after what critics have decried as a conservative takeover at New College of Florida, students and professors say a sense of confusion and anxiety looms over the start of fall semester in Sarasota, Florida.
Amy Reid, a member of the school’s Board of Trustees, said course options have dwindled after nearly 40% of faculty members have resigned.
Reid said the situation is quickly becoming “untenable.”
“Just before I came to this meeting, I received word that one more faculty member in biology is leaving,” she told CNN. “That’s going to make a challenge for students to complete their areas of studies here.”
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Education is against Florida state policy, as decreed by the state’s duly and honestly elected Führer. Thus, the college may only return money to students if they agree to use that money on non-educational purposes such as political donations, Confederate flags, or cigarettes.
political donations, Confederate flags, or cigarettes.
…and GUNS!
But if they’re college age, that means they’re already out of public school, ya goober.
Parents fucked around, kids will find out
Sounds about right. How long have the kids been being the ones punished for the parents shitty actions?
We used to live in a society that wanted the young to succeed and older individuals wanted the next generation to live better than they had.
Probably parents of other kids who wouldn’t have gone to the former New College in the first place.
NCF has an interesting history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_College_of_Florida I can see why it would be a target for right wing culture warriors. Equally important, I can see why it would look like a good substrate to give an intellectual veneer to right wing dogma.
Sucks for the current students, but the new administration will eventually be able to replace all of the faculty with conservative voices and get their “Hillsdale of the South.” With the right funding, they’ll be able to start their own slate of classical studies, intelligent design, and probably eugenics journals, and buid a body of peer reviewed academic research to support whatever god said. By 2027 there won’t be any progressive students left to complain.
How is it that Desantis can appoint six members of the board of trustees for a college?
It is a state school. The board of trustees are state employees. It seems that they don’t have any sort of tenure or term length. They got let go like any other at-will employee.
Conservatives proving that they can’t manage anything once again.
If they can’t manage a college, why the fuck should we ask them to manage a state or federal government??
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Once heralded as a progressive liberal arts school, New College of Florida has found itself at the center of the state’s culture war over education.
The new board has since voted to abolish diversity, equity and inclusion programs, and replaced the college’s former president with Richard Corcoran, the state’s former education commissioner.
At a board meeting earlier this month Spalding said the gender studies program was “more of an ideological movement than academic discipline.”
Ryan Terry, a spokesperson for the college, pointed to an increase in fall enrollment as a sign the school is appealing to more students.
New College said in a press release that it is currently housing some students in Sarasota-area hotels after a recent engineering report cited air quality concerns in the Pei residential complex.
“Out of an abundance of caution, and for the health and safety of the NCF community, Interim President Corcoran has made the decision to shutter all of the Pei dorms,” the press release said.
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Mmm sweet sweet brain drain.
