Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

” Some professors saw the statement as a baffling and infuriating capitulation to Florida governor Ron DeSantis, who’s made no secret of his plans to purge the teaching of critical race theory—or anything that may be mistaken for critical race theory—from Florida public education. That’s anti-education.”

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Back in 2013, Governor of North Carolina Pat McCrory questioned the value of a “liberal arts” education , the initial angle of assault on the humanities taken by conservative ideologues, since surpassed by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis who wants to make teaching anything at odds with his particular vision of America essentially illegal.

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The Guardian Higher Education

MARCH 2, 2024

Move is to comply with state law passed by Governor Ron DeSantis that prohibits public funding of DEI programs The University of Florida is terminating all its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) positions to comply with a state law passed in January that prohibits state or federal funds from being used to fund the programs.

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The Guardian Higher Education

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

In a rebuke to Governor Ron DeSantis’s denialism, the student body calls for campus-wide measures to tackle the climate crisis The University of Florida student senate voted in favour of a “green new deal” late on Tuesday, becoming the first public university to adopt such a resolution through student government.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Count on The New York Post to come up with the tabloids’ most incendiary headlines and news article leads. That this requirement is the mirror image of those initiatives that Florida governor Ron DeSantis seeks to push through in his state: dictating course content with a political slant.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Governor Ron DeSantis said it himself last year, after U.S. News & World Report again ranked Florida the No. ” Despite the cross-messaging from Kim Jong-Ron, it is clear that Florida’s colleges and universities are not broken.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 17, 2023

Ron DeSantis, the Republican governor of Florida, signed the act into law last year. “Our professors are critical to a healthy democracy, and the State of Florida’s decision to choose which viewpoints are worthy of illumination and which must remain in the shadows has implications for us all.

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