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Next month, New College of Florida will welcome activist and writer Steve Sailer, a ‘proponent of scientific racism’

New College of Florida (NCF) will host the extremist writer Steve Sailer, who has been described as a “white supremacist” and a “proponent of scientific racism”, at a college-branded public event next month.

New College has made headlines since January 2023, when the rightwing governor, Ron DeSantis, vowed to transform it from a university known for liberal values into a conservative institution, and installed a new board of trustees including the rightwing culture warrior Christopher Rufo. That board in turn appointed DeSantis’s “close ally” Richard Corcoran as the new college president, in which role he makes a $699,000 salary.

DeSantis’s lieutenants’ actions at New College – like abolishing disciplines, removing bathroom signage and denying professors tenure – have seen the departure of more than a third of the faculty, and given rise to myriad legal actions.

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[-] FirstCircle@lemmy.ml 6 points 18 hours ago

"MAGA is eating out" - this is happening to the colleges in N. Idaho as well, possibly all of ID. Schools losing accreditation, admin and faculty bailing, students unable to xfer credits... a big shit-show that fucks over students but makes the local Fascists think that they're "taking back education". Got kids? Send 'em to FL or ID and they can get an unaccredited PhD in Ignorance Studies in a year or less.

[-] SGGeorwell@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

Sounds like real live, actual fascism.

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