Summary
New College of Florida, once a liberal arts institution, has undergone a conservative overhaul driven by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and allies, who installed a right-leaning board and administration.
Led by Richard Corcoran, the college has hired faculty with connections to rightwing media and think tanks, sidelining traditional hiring protocols, according to an internal letter.
This transformation, viewed by some Republicans as a model for conservative reform in higher education, has sparked controversy, faculty pushback, and a significant drop in national rankings amidst a shift in curriculum and institutional focus.
Tbh with the way things are headed it might be best for all Americans that wish to further their education to do it in another country, it’d be safer and more likely to be quality education. Everything here’s getting gutted, dismantled, sold, and traded, in the name of bullshit.
That’s my hope for my kids right now.
Still working out where to go, and of course the (lengthy) process of getting there, as well as an obvious step further than simply sending my kids off to college elsewhere…
But “Not the US” is the answer to far too many questions right now.
This is assuming that international colleges will even accept American institutional credentials for education going forwards. With how thorough this dismantling might be, we might go back to “oh, we didn’t learn about the Civil War up in Nebraska, all we needed to know was how to run the farm” like it was at the turn of the last century.
As long as they can do it.