‘Where learning goes to die’: DeSantis’s rightwing takeover of a liberal arts college #SaveNewCollege @grantimatter #highered

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

https://lompocrecord.com/sunday-doonesbury/article_15d2b351-0b4e-5a76-81f5-c7df9c6de28e.html

New College in Doonesbury. #savenewcollege

From Trending in Ed:

#SaveNewCollege #YourCampusIsNext #PetriDish

Neil Gaiman, surprise (remote) speaker at #NewCollegeofFlorida alternative commencement:
https://vimeo.com/828156958/05dd2b18d6

It's short and worth watching the whole way through.

#SaveNewCollege

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/florida-new-college-students-plan-alternate-commencement-address-rcna84922

I can guarantee that no one graduating tonight will forget their Weeki-Wachee alternate commencement! See you there!

#NewCollegeofFlorida #SaveNewCollege #RealFlorida

"If there's any good, any at all, in the current "hostile takeover," it's that we -- or the few left standing -- may again think about educational policy, if only to hold back the *darkness of unearned certitude*. Meanwhile, I guess we'll count courses." Col. Arthur "Mac" Miller, professor.
#SaveNewCollege #Education #Florida

"[Librarian Helene Gold] suggested the move 'feels like a deliberate and targeted attack on our students who need support now more than ever. Removing a key figure from the college's academic support team does not serve in the college's or students' best interest and feels like it was intended to actively demoralize and destabilize our community.'"

#NewCollege #SaveNewCollege #LibraryWorkers #LGBTQ #Florida

🔗 https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2023/05/04/new-college-florida-abruptly-dismisses-librarian

#SaveNewCollege

Next week (4/26), they're all likely to be denied tenure:
https://www.tampabay.com/news/education/2023/04/19/sarasota-new-college-corcoran-tenure-memo/
#SaveNewCollege

"New College was never captured by a large and fearsome DEI bureaucracy. In fact, the academic program cultivates a fierce and idiosyncratic independence. And when it hired its first dean of diversity, equity, and inclusion in 2022, it wasn’t surrendering to the woke left. It was responding to an explicit mandate from a DeSantis appointee."
#SaveNewCollege
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/03/new-college-florida-ron-desantis-takeover/673556/

Reject Ron DeSantis' fascist takeover of New College of Florida: https://chng.it/2x2vzS4n

I'm an alum who wants to #SaveNewCollege.

#YourCampusIsNext #SaveNewCollege

The closest thing New College had to a DEI office was the outreach office that (among other things) helped veteran students.

And no, it's not just #Florida.

https://tinyurl.com/WaPoUVA

#YourCampusIsNext

#SaveNewCollege

The #StopWoke movement as profitable grift is getting kinda obvious:
https://www.tampabay.com/news/education/2023/02/20/how-does-richard-corcorans-new-college-salary-compare-answer-4-charts/

#SaveNewCollege #YourCampusIsNext

@quiltgran read this crazy serious article. New college started as a private liberal arts college. The city and county of #sarasota wanted a higher education institution because they wanted intellectual activity and gasp -intellectuals- in their community. UT Knoxville is public. Every institution of every stripe is at risk, and there is no strategy to #resist. #flawridah where everything goes to die. #savenewcollege

From: @joyannreid
https://masto.ai/@joyannreid/109821577026922668

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/ron-desantis-new-college-of-florida-20230112.html

#newcollege

“The looming fight for the soul of this tiny Florida college is important because it speaks volumes about where the battle for America is headed between now and November 2024, when DeSantis hopes to stand as the Republican nominee for president”

Go to #savenewcollege.org

https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/opinion/columns/your-voice/2023/01/30/new-college-allows-every-student-to-grow-and-thats-worth-protecting-desantis-trustees/69853197007/

#saveNewCollege from #desatis “Gov. Ron DeSantis has appointed ultra-conservative political figures to the New College Board of Trustees. They want to rebrand it as the “Hillsdale College of the South,” revising New College’s curriculum to follow the classical education standards used at the private Christian college in Michigan. But the goal of higher education should not be to create a homogenous group of citizens – it should be to nurture broad thinkers.”

Word from the students. Powerlifting in the rain...
#SaveNewCollege

The #SaveNewCollege coverage of the board of trustees meeting is happening here: https://www.youtube.com/live/nZf2-993ltk?feature=share!

Will the new president be ousted for a newer president?

Will the dogmatically anti-woke find evidence of a "dogmatic wokism" that isn't there?

The meeting starts in an hour.