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[quote=Anonymous]New College students can't get the classes they need to fulfill graduation requirements, and the College just doesn't care.

[quote]The course catalogue was already sparse when students first began looking at classes last spring. Dani Delaney, the mother of one former New College student who is transferring to Hampshire College in Massachusetts—which guaranteed admission to all New College students in good standing—said her son could only find two classes that counted toward his “area of concentration” (which is what New College calls majors). When he contacted the institution about the lack of relevant courses, she said, he was told the course catalogue was “in flux” and to “choose something else.”

“These are young adults who are not looking to fill up a semester with high school electives. It’s not like, ‘Oh, chorus is closed, let me just go take that art class,’” she said. “There are classes [students] need to take to continue to propel [their] studies forward … that was just an absolute stunning thing to have a college tell us, just pick something else. No.”[/quote]

New trustee, Christopher Rufo, who has zero experience running anything, much less a college, posted on twitter a call for professorial job applicants to email him at his personal email address.

To boost enrollment, they've added athletic teams, and about half of the incoming freshman class are athletes. There are 70 incoming baseball players - Univ of Florida has only 37 players on its roster - and New College doesn't even have a field where they can practice and play. Also, the athletes have displaced junior and senior students from promised dorm room space. Many students now have to live in a hotel a mile off campus.

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

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