California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) met with students and faculty members from the New College of Florida, the liberal arts institution embroiled in Gov. Ron DeSantis’s (R) higher education overhaul and the country’s culture wars.
in Florida. “Now it feels like that has kind of been burst. The campus feels a lot less safe now,” he said.Newsom’s Sarasota visit is one stop on his trip around the South, part of his “Campaign for Democracy,” which seeks to “confront and defeat unAmerican authoritarianism,” according to the organization’s website.
Newsom took aim at DeSantis directly in remarks at North Sarasota Public Library, near New College, on Wednesday, accusing him of He told students, “You’re not only on the right side of history, you have something he’ll never have — moral authority,” Sarasota’s Herald-Tribune reported.said the governor is “focused on getting Florida’s public institutions of higher learning refocused on academics and truth” and that “stunts from political opponents” have “no effect.”The two governors have had public spats in the past.
“Higher education has long been a key battleground during moments of heightened political divide,” Eddie R. Cole, a professor of higher education and history at UCLA, wrote in an email. He called DeSantis’s moves at New College “political interference” that “should concern everyone in America.” “Regardless of political leaning,” he said, “everyone should want their state’s campuses to remain accredited, maintain academic freedom, and give students and faculty the leeway to teach and learn.”
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