DeSantis's plans to make the New College Of Florida a MAGA institution.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

How do we thwart it or do we go gently into the night? There are only six hundred twenty five students. Could scholarship funds be set up for them so they can transfer? Could some private institutions offer scholarships? I went to Daytona Beach Community College for my A.A., the University Of Central Florida for my B.S. and M.A., and then to Florida State University to work towards a Ph.D. Damn if I would go to a MAGA institution. I had Republican professors and that was fine but they would have been appalled by Trump.

[judesedit]

1. Based on lies? And they'll pay for that.

How brainwashed can you get? That college will be a hypnotist's dream.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

2. When students choose to go to certain colleges they are making statements about their beliefs.

DeSantis is turning the core mission of New College and why students choose it upside down.

[judesedit]

16. I agree. Still based on lies. Sad to say they're being brainwashed

[Easterncedar]

3. The UCC founded it

It was supposed to thwart segregation. Now DeSantis explicitly wants to end the policies supporting diversity and inclusion. This is so evil it makes me sick.

I surely would be glad of any ideas of how to fight this.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

4. It's sickening because student choose it to get a small (l) liberal education

It's sickening because students choose it to get a small (l) liberal education and DeSantis is turning it into a MAGA institution which is the antithesis of liberalism. It beggars the question: what is to be done?

[Easterncedar]

5. Sickening because

Faculty will be fired when the curriculum no longer includes gender studies, for example, students who have invested in liberal education will lose that investment and have to leave, and the LGBTQ community has lost a safe and nurturing academic environment.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

6. They can't fire tenured professors who will likely make some noise.

[obamanut2012]

8. lol yes he can

He already has here in FL at SUS.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

10. Tenured professors can only be fired for cause.

It doesn't mean they can't be fired but they're entitled to due process.

[lindysalsagal]

7. deathsanta has lots of idiotic schemes. Doesn't meant anyone is going to cooperate.

[obamanut2012]

9. They can't say no

He has already taken over the board with wingnuts with zero educational or public service background, people who literally want to dismantle our quite good SUS system here.

[MagickMuffin]

11. So, the students should get their money refunded and go outta state

Big hassle, however, it would be the demise of the college since we all know MAGA’s aren’t keen on higher education.

As a matter of fact they probably couldn’t get in with their high school stats. They’re not the brightest stars on the planet!

[DemocratSinceBirth]

12. MAGA can have their own universities. They had Trump University.

They shouldn't be allowed to hijack existing ones.

[MagickMuffin]

13. So very true, however, DeStantis doesn't care about any of that

His intention is to destroy anything that he doesn’t agree with. He’s a bully of the highest degree.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

15. I can't imagine choosing a liberal college and ending up in a MAGA one.

It would be like choosing Oberlin College and ending up in Liberty University. Those poor kids.

[Genki Hikari]

19. Most credits received will transfer to other unis

Physics is physics, calculus is calculus, an English class focusing on a jr/sr level Shakespeare class has direct equivalents all over the country, as does a jr/sr level history class called Modern (post WWII) America.

Name the course at X university and it's highly likely that Y university will match up about 95%. Or higher. Even if they're all the way across the country from each other.

And even the 5% or so that don't match up (say CA history classes that aren't offered in MA) will transfer as approved electives within a major.

So no need to demand a refund. It's the rare class that won't transfer, usually something super-highly specialized. Not many of those classes out there.

[Timeflyer]

14. This is all about power and money, under the flag of Hillsdale College's brand of Xtianity.

That place has its hooks deep in the conservative gop, and aims to take over the country or at least Florida, and, if voters are stupid and DeSadist runs for pres, the US.

[judesedit]

18. Probably fueled by the Kochs. Choose the faculty, too

Thank goodness they're in their 80's. Greedy, power-hungry mfr's.

[Cha]

17. trump university Jr.

[Genki Hikari]

20. I've got five years for the over/under

For how long it takes for enough students to abandon ship or flat out choose to go elsewhere for a real education, that the college will toffer 100% open enrollment to get the nitwits to attend.

The smart kids will take their tuition money elsewhere.

If they can qualify for admission to a real university after receiving a crap education K-12.