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Jeffrey Yost Sep 3, 2023

The far right's war on higher ed. & esp. the liberal arts is an attack on democracy. Unless stopped, it will play out on many US campuses.

“This is a test case for a conservative overhaul of higher education – and it isn’t going to stay isolated to New College or Florida.”

-Gender St. faculty, New College, resigned Prof. Clarkson.

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/03/new-college-florida-desantis-teachers

‘Where learning goes to die’: DeSantis’s rightwing takeover of a liberal arts college

Small liberal arts college is being steadily eroded by a DeSantis-aligned board, in ominous sign for higher studies in a country torn by culture wars

The Guardian

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Lilly I Sep 3, 2023

@JustCodeCulture @politicalscience @histodons @sociology @anthropol I noticed that they have a faculty union. I wonder if having a union helped at all or mostly other kinds of organizing would have been needed in this case.

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Jeffrey Yost

In this case I don't think it mattered much, but other states it might. State legislators can shut down state schools or take other extreme action. Faculty could go on strike but that is always unlikely during an academic year out of concern for students, and I think they would have been replaced in FL. Programs can be shut down and tenured faculty let go. Agree with Dr. Mikaila, academics pay too little attn to state & local elections.

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