Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Sep 24, 2024

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“Facts don’t care about your feelings, you’ve heard this, okay. No, it’s completely backward. I think it’s completely wrong. It is the inverse, your feelings actually don’t care about facts,” said keynote speaker Chris Rufo in his opening remarks.

#PostTruth #MAGA #Trumpism #CultureWars #EnablingFascism #antiCRT #RonDeSantis #NewCollegeFlorida

Bret Pettichord Oct 1, 2023

Sarasota Florida, where the right wing is taking over. Taking over New College (where I graduated) and also Flynn’s headquarters.

Glad to finally see this article about all of it. 🎁

#Sarasota #NewCollegeFlorida

https://wapo.st/3ZEQANJ

The dream of MAGAmerica is alive in Sarasota County

On Florida’s gulf coast, a loose coalition of activists, officials and Trumpworld celebrities is building the world they want to live in

The Washington Post
U.S. Politics in Real TimeSep 19, 2023

New College of Florida plummets in national ranking amid DeSantis conservative overhaul

https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/education/2023/09/18/amid-desantis-overhaul-new-college-drops-double-digits-in-rankings/70889485007/

#NewCollegeFlorida #DeSantisOverhaul #NationalRanking #Conservative #Education #HigherEd #Politics #News

New College of Florida plummets in national ranking amid DeSantis conservative overhaul

Ahead of the fall semester, the school established an athletics department and aggressively recruited student-athletes, but at academic cost.

Sarasota Herald-Tribune
David Hull 胡大衛Aug 18, 2023

Read this whole thing. It's massive professional malpractice from the administration. I feel so bad for the people there who are trying to hold the place together. And for the students? Just awful...

Chaos at New College of Florida

With the start of the semester two weeks away, students are grappling with absent professors, canceled classes and severe housing woes.

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/students/academics/2023/08/16/chaos-reigns-new-college-florida-fall-semester-nears

#NewCollegeFlorida #NCF #HigherEd #DeSantis

Chaos reigns at New College of Florida as fall semester nears

With the start of the semester two weeks away, students are grappling with absent professors, canceled classes and severe housing woes.

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