2y ago

Students, professors report chaos as semester begins at New College of Florida

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Students, professors report chaos as semester begins at New College of Florida | CNN

Months after what critics have decried as a conservative takeover at New College of Florida, students and professors say a sense of confusion and anxiety looms over the start of fall semester in Sarasota, Florida.

Amy Reid, a member of the school’s Board of Trustees, said course options have dwindled after nearly 40% of faculty members have resigned.

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2y ago

Students, professors report chaos as semester begins at New College of Florida

www.cnn.com /2023/08/26/us/new-college-of-florida-chaos-reaj/index.html

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- Resignations were by design.
- Anyone from team “R” able and willing to articulate how any of this is good for anyone?
  
  There are virtually no conservatives on Lemmy. I tried getting a conservative perspective on c/conservative and all but one of the responses I got were from other liberals.
“When you start banning terms and banning fields of study and arguing that the state has the right to tell faculty what they can and can’t say in the classroom that really hampers the learning environment,” Clarkson told CNN.
They're banning CRT and gender studies courses. DeSantis also says that these changes are because it's a publicly funded school and specifically mentioned because it's not a private school, but then says that this one should be more like a private school mentioned in the article.