#Floriduh governor #RonDeSantis forced a #HillsdaleCollege makeover at #NewCollege in Sarasota. In response, there has been a #science and #humanities faculty exodus. Departing #science students were replaced with a huge increase in ‘student-athlete’ admissions, SAT scores of freshman plummeted by 100 points. 🤷🏻‍♂️ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/03/new-college-florida-desantis-teachers

Why are some people so surprised when the obvious happens?

#Florida #NewCollege #HigherEd #HigherEducation #education

“It’s a complete disregard and abandonment of the current student body,” says Vivian Cargille, a third-year student majoring in marine biology.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/03/new-college-florida-desantis-teachers

Fun fact: some years back, when helping my mother to clean out her house preparatory to downsizing and moving out here. I found among my papers some college admission materials: evidently #NewCollege #Florida had invited me to apply. I had absolutely no idea or recollection of that.

Apropos of #NewCollege Florida and Hampshire College transfer offer:

last I saw, 86 applied to transfer here, some 2 dozen decided to come, and another 17 might enroll this term, with more expected in the spring

New College of Florida students take transfer deal from Massachusetts liberal arts school - Axios Tampa Bay

https://www.axios.com/local/tampa-bay/2023/08/15/new-college-of-florida-students-transfer-hampshire-college-massachusetts

You can tell the semester is around the corner: starting to get e-mails from students asking about space in a class.

Always nice to see interest. But today included one of the transfer student refugees from #NewCollege in Florida. Very glad we are doing this

#RonDeSantis #Florida
@donmoyn
Don Moynihan on #NewCollege:

"As the new semester starts . . . One third of faculty have gone. Students cannot find classes. Students with housing contracts are being relocated to an airport hotel.

The new President is a former GOP House speaker, who was handed a salary more than double than that of his predecessor. The new Dean of Students is a lobbyist. Trustees were selected for their ideological leanings rather than experience."
https://sciences.social/@donmoyn/110907286140693603

Florida’s New College students, faculty are leaving after DeSantis takeover. Here’s how many - #Florida #Education #NewCollege #HigherEd #Academia https://www.bradenton.com/news/local/education/article278368274.html

A semester inside the siege: #NewCollege professor is trapped in the takeover
https://www.tampabay.com/narratives/2023/08/16/semester-inside-siege-new-college-professor-is-trapped-takeover/

I am not surprised: Chaos at New College of Florida

With the start of the semester two weeks away, students are grappling with absent professors, canceled classes and severe housing woes.

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/students/academics/2023/08/16/chaos-reigns-new-college-florida-fall-semester-nears

#NewCollege #chaos #highered

Well said, Ms. Goldberg!

“Selective American #colleges tend to have more 🚺 than 🚹 applicants; to maintain something approaching a #gender balance, some have adopted lower standards for men.
In other words, it often takes deliberate intervention —
One might call it affirmative action — to create a student body in which women don’t predominate.
New College isn’t jettisoning gender ideology. It’s just adopting a different one.”
#NewCollege #classics #education

it's a tribute to how sweet it was, and will be again when they are long forgotten, how many and puffed these grifters are who are descending upon #NewCollege like flies. https://floridapolitics.com/archives/629209-david-rancourt-joins-new-college-as-dean-of-students/

NCF Freedom Inc, which has applied for nonprofit status, filed a lawsuit in federal district court challenging SB 266. The group is run by New College alumni and supporters. #newcollege #publiceducation https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/politics/2023/08/14/lawsuit-accuses-desantis-of-violating-free-speech-with-higher-ed-law/70559267007/

A stalwart of the movement in favor of traditional Western values and masculine virtues had the legal system coerce a kid to leave their college for spitting on him in the throes of a political confrontation that he provoked and prosecuted wielding the full power of the state.

What a hero, what a man.

https://www.tampabay.com/news/education/2023/08/10/charges-dropped-against-new-college-student-accused-spitting-trustee/

#ChrisRufo #NewCollege

desantis is to #NewCollege as elon is to twitter.

A Liberal Board Member at New College in Florida has left the college.

Now all the students need to transfer to colleges located in Swing States and register to vote to save their lives.

#Flexit
#floridafascism
#NewCollege
#PackSwingStates

https://revealnews.org/podcast/the-culture-war-goes-to-college/

Wow. I’ve seen the Florida bullshit that’s going on but I hadn’t heard this. They gutted #NewCollege #fascism https://overcast.fm/+Bv9vtg9g0

by #NaomiFeinstein in #MiamiNewTimes:

"The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) argues Wallenberg's removal smacks of a constitutional rights violation. The group says college staff have the 'right to speak as private citizens on matters of public concern, including on the functioning of a public college.'"

https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/removal-of-desantis-critic-from-florida-college-sparks-free-speech-debate-17205541

#Florida #NewCollege #FreeSpeech #FirstAmendment #1stAmendment #ErikWallenberg #history

@VoltaireOxford Postdoc Symposium “Legacies of Enlightenment” draws to a close after two intensive days of papers and discussion with a look at some material 18th-century legacies. Thanks to #bodleianlibraries and #newcollege for having us!

Wow. Well worth reading. #newcollege #whitesupremacy #DEI

"Although DeSantis claims he targeted the school specifically for their “progressive culture,” the fact is that this particular college dealt a major blow to Florida’s white supremacist movement...If someone like Derek [Black, son of the #KKK Grand Wizard] can change his mind with exposure to diversity, equality, and inclusion, what the hell will that do to people who weren’t raised to hate others?"

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/6/8/2162143/-The-shocking-real-reason-DeSantis-targeted-New-College-is-foretelling-of-things-to-come

I know we're all doing the Indictment Thursday Happy Dance right now, but when you get a chance, read this piece on DeSantis and New College. This man is scary as hell. It's a long read, but worth it.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/6/8/2162143/-The-shocking-real-reason-DeSantis-targeted-New-College-is-foretelling-of-things-to-come

#DeSantis
#WhiteNationalism
#Nazis
#NewCollege