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.”
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.