New College of Florida Is DeSantis’s Launchpad for Attack on Higher Education

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Gov. Ron DeSantis has appointed six trustees to the New College of Florida to quash its progressive curriculum.

, “Academic quality, affordability and accountability rarely happen on their own. They require exceptional leaders. And Trustees are the key.”

“Right-wing, plutocratic, libertarians in Florida saw a chance to create pro free-market, pro-government-deregulation policies as a response to the Black Lives Matter protests and the government response to the COVID-19 pandemic that began in 2020,” Isaac Kamola, co-author of. “Three years ago, many people were starting to demand a structural transformation of U.S. society. The right saw and heard this demand and freaked out.

Amy Reid, professor of French language and literature and director of NCF’s gender studies program, toldthat while faculty, students and alumni are organizing to support each other in their fight to protect academic freedom, faculty governance and free speech, she understands that the trustees have control over the college’s purse strings. “Gender studies gets about $7,000 a year for programming and office supplies, things like our phone and copy machine.

Erik Wallenberg, a visiting professor of history, agreed. “I’ve only been at NCF since August 2022, but it’s been a delight to be here,” he said, adding that the pedagogical model used at NCF “is one that should be replicated, not destroyed.”

 

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Nothing progressive about race baiting and sowing gender confusion - US PC culture is a global embarrassment and mocked by the overwhelmingly majority of nations in Africa, Asia, and so on … Pity African Christians, Sikhs, Muslims, and so forth migrating to this madness …

bluevoters call them out get loud! tag/call/email the GOP HouseGOP SenateGOP GOPGovs et al EVERY SINGLE TIME YOU see legislation/stories exposing their treachery. OVERWHELM THEM with DAILY public & direct protest they can't easily ignore. don't forget to tag SpeakerMcCarthy

desantis is PutinsPuppet same as trump. listen to the GOP kremlin-based rhetoric. behold their fascist policies. their goal is to turn America into WestRussia.

GOP if y'all are such patriots, why are you talking & acting like such traitors? what kompromat happened to get GOP to sabatoge America? why are so many people saying you're putinspuppets if it's not true? why so many GOP-nra-russian ties

it makes more sense when you remember these are would-be oligarchs & they ALL already send their kids to elite christian/private/boarding/european schools. the GOP dgaf about ANY of OUR kids.

republicans dgaf about your/working class kids. voters are nothing more than a renewable resource to/for them. and it's still very much about their racist, misogynistic agenda. conservative ideology hasn't changed since the civil war era, only their methods to achieve their goals

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