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[quote=Anonymous]I am very close with someone who just retired from a top post at UF.  They were there for decades and weathered a lot of political stuff without a lot of angst but was pretty unhappy with the level of interference with the academics in the last year or two.  They have a number of colleagues that were quietly slipping away rather than deal with it.  No one wants to be vocal about it because of the risk of backlash against their department or the university generally so they just retire or look for a position elsewhere, or try to keep their head down and hope it will pass.  I think what DeSantis did to Disney probably didn’t really help — if he’ll retaliate like that against Disney, what hope does a professor at a state university have?  Better to keep your mouth shut.  There’s already some view that UF is viewed as too liberal or elitist within Florida political circles so they would like to move state money to other institution.

I think it’s a great school but there’s definitely reason to be concerned, particularly if this is the start of a trend and not just something that DeSantis was doing because he thought he has a shot at the presidency.  [/quote]

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