New College of Florida looks set to become a pivotal battleground over the mission of public universities as Gov. Ron DeSantis wages his war on 'woke.'
But he said that meddling with the hiring of faculty or the curriculum or ruling certain subjects out of bounds — as some of the new trustees at New College of Florida have vowed to do — “crosses a red line.”
Rufo and Speir prevailed in their standoff with administrators, and about 200 professors, college staff and community members poured into the auditorium. Rufo agreed that nobody should be intimidated, but he offered Rosario-Hernandez no assurance that her job was safe. “Doing a full 180 and making it conservative or traditional or classical is not going to help anybody,” said Rocío Ramírez Castro, who studies anthropology and Spanish at the New College of Florida.
“My goal is not to say, ‘Let’s replace the left-wing orthodoxy with the right-wing orthodoxy,’” he said. “My goal is to say, ‘Let’s expand the bounds of public debate.’” Christopher Rufo speaks with Sam Sharf, a 22-year-old international politics student, after a town hall meeting at New College of Florida on Jan. 25 on the college campus in Sarasota.
In spring, he signed legislation to limit discussion of race, gender and sexuality in universities — restrictions that were struck down in November by a federal judge who called them “positively dystopian.”a sweeping plan last week to eliminate “ideological conformity” in public higher education by eliminating diversity programs, weakening tenure protections for professors and focusing the curriculum on the history and philosophy that has shaped Western civilization.
But his six new trustees — along with right-wing scholar Ryan T. Anderson, who was appointed last month by Florida’s Board of Governors — give conservatives a controlling majority on the 13-member panel.Over the objection of protesters, Rufo moved swiftly to advance a motion abolishing the office that oversees diversity initiatives and adopt adrawn up by the Manhattan Institute — the conservative think tank where he is a senior fellow — to “restore colorblind equality.
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