Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) blasted the students at San Francisco State University and Stanford Law School who shouted down and attacked speakers on their campus, saying that if students did that at a Florida institution, they should be expelled.
The governor made the comments while a group of protesters had congregated on the campus of the New College of Florida to protest his visit. The governor was visiting the campus to sign eight bills making changes to higher education in the state, including affording the liberal arts college a significant funding increase.
"I would love for this to be, and I think it will be, the top classical liberal arts college in America," DeSantis said."Certainly the top state liberal arts college in America." The bills the governor signed Monday included a statutory ban on diversity, equity, and inclusion programs in higher education and expanded funding for state university civics centers, among other reforms.University presidents will also have unilateral power to hire new faculty, and will no longer have to rely exclusively on faculty hiring committees, a move DeSantis said would empower university presidents to hire faculty that feel silenced at other institutions.
"People feel like they're walking on eggshells [and] that [if] they say the wrong thing, they can be blackballed," DeSantis said."That's not a healthy environment, they don't believe that they have the freedom to speak their minds on a lot of these university campuses. And so they see they see a college like New College or a system like Florida going in the other direction where we're welcoming that debate.
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