It seems clear that this small group intends to implement what Spier termed DeSantis’s “mandate” over and against the wishes of the existing New College community. What we really need is a board of trustees that will support the continuation of vitally important programs, which this community has already agreed upon collectively. We argue that a real mandate comes from the community of educators and students, further determining together what our learning community should look like.
Historically, access to Black studies and gender studies was won by students through campus movements across the country, including demands for courses and departments, often with support of faculty. The same is true for women’s studies departments and, more recently, gender and sexuality studies. These programs help us understand our world and to act within it to build community.
DeSantis packing the New College board of trustees is a targeted effort to dismantle a 60-year-old experiment that, by all accounts, has produced a successful model of education. Even by the standards of traditional models of education, New College graduates succeed. As our faculty wrote in an official statement, our students include “a Federal Reserve Bank president, a Fields Medalist in mathematics… Fulbright award winners , Gillman International Scholars, high earners ...
But students and faculty have also built an institution here that provides a home and community for a population where two-thirds of the students identify as female — which the incoming board of trustees noted— many students identify as queer or trans, and where many students have expressed a desire to get something different from their education.
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