DeSantis Wants to Takeover Progressive College

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s a tiny struggling public liberal arts college with an almost non-existent endowment. The governor has every right to step in

How is it struggling?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s a tiny struggling public liberal arts college with an almost non-existent endowment. The governor has every right to step in

This college has been liberal and progressive for decades. It’s nothing new! I have friends that graduated from there in the 1990s. DeSantis stepping in is only going to ruin things and most likely run the school into the ground.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Colleges don’t discriminate against “conservatives.” Conservatives think “free speech” means “free from social/professional consequences” because they don’t actually care what it says in the constitution.

Some of that is true but usually it is more a case of a conservative who thinks they are owed a bigger platform. They confused rejection in the marketplace of ideas as persecution.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s a tiny struggling public liberal arts college with an almost non-existent endowment. The governor has every right to step in

This college has been liberal and progressive for decades. It’s nothing new! I have friends that graduated from there in the 1990s. DeSantis stepping in is only going to ruin things and most likely run the school into the ground.

That’s probably what he wants. He destroys things and bosses people around.

I don’t like dudes telling me what words I can’t say “gay” or talk about gay people. He is an ignorant human who attended an elite college yet doesn’t want others to have the same type of education.

[Anonymous]

PS

DeSantis attended Harvard AND Yale.

The Ivies sure turn out the dictators. And look at DeSantis wanting to prevent others from getting a decent education.

[Anonymous]

He wants a liberal arts college in the mold of Hillsdale. It’s a public college, why shouldn’t it reflect the values of the state? Elections have consequences, if Florida voters want a progressive college, they should have voted for someone who agrees

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:He wants a liberal arts college in the mold of Hillsdale. It’s a public college, why shouldn’t it reflect the values of the state? Elections have consequences, if Florida voters want a progressive college, they should have voted for someone who agrees

Because that's fascism?

Yikes.

[Anonymous]

The board of the public university system is made up of political appointees?

So he's mad at the people he and past governors put on the board to run the schools? He thought they were good enough to appoint them.

The Board of Governors is comprised of seventeen members, fourteen of whom are appointed by the Florida Governor and confirmed by the Florida Senate for a term of seven years.

13 of the board members were appointed AFTER DeSantis became governor.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He wants a liberal arts college in the mold of Hillsdale. It’s a public college, why shouldn’t it reflect the values of the state? Elections have consequences, if Florida voters want a progressive college, they should have voted for someone who agrees

Because that's fascism?

Yikes.

A conservative state replacing a progressive school with a conservative school is fascism? Throw around a term enough and it loses meaning

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:He wants a liberal arts college in the mold of Hillsdale. It’s a public college, why shouldn’t it reflect the values of the state? Elections have consequences, if Florida voters want a progressive college, they should have voted for someone who agrees

values of the state? define that please

and shouldn't an educational institution be based on facts, not values?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:He wants to do what all authoritarians want, destablize and stigmatize education and knowledge.

Authoritarians need their adherents to be fat and stupid.

What's funny is that you can't see that is what has been happening for many years, but you're okay with it when it's consistent with your politics.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He wants a liberal arts college in the mold of Hillsdale. It’s a public college, why shouldn’t it reflect the values of the state? Elections have consequences, if Florida voters want a progressive college, they should have voted for someone who agrees

Because that's fascism?

Yikes.

A conservative state replacing a progressive school with a conservative school is fascism? Throw around a term enough and it loses meaning

Yes, imposing ideological requirements on educational institutions is classic fascism.

[Anonymous]

I'm all for this. Hillsdale runs circles around NCF in its present state.

[Anonymous]

Christopher Rufo, who has no credentials to run a college, is one of the new appointees to the Board of Trustees. But he is the guy who has successfully created a whole new culture war over what he claims is "Critical Race Theory."

He's going to "bring in his team" and abolish "diversity, equity and inclusion" to be replaced with "equality, merit, and colorblindness."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Christopher Rufo, who has no credentials to run a college, is one of the new appointees to the Board of Trustees. But he is the guy who has successfully created a whole new culture war over what he claims is "Critical Race Theory."

He's going to "bring in his team" and abolish "diversity, equity and inclusion" to be replaced with "equality, merit, and colorblindness."

ok, are we supposed to feel bad that a single college in Florida will ignore race in admissions?