The fascists who took over Florida's once-progressive New College at the behest of Ron DeSantis have been caught dumping vast numbers of books.

#Fascism #GOPExtremism #Florida #NewCollege

https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/education/2024/08/15/new-college-of-florida-throws-away-hundreds-of-library-books-diversity-lgbtq/74814756007/

New College of Florida tosses hundreds of library books, empties gender diversity library

A dumpster in the parking lot of Jane Bancroft Cook Library on the campus of New College overflowed with books from the Gender and Diversity Center.

Sarasota Herald-Tribune
@alexwild New College has been taken over? By fascists? Goddamn.

@merileedkarr @alexwild it started a year or so ago and is as awful as you would imagine. Just as Florida as a whole is a testing ground for a conservative/fascist takeover of the US government via Project 2025, the New College takeover is the same but for US universities. Worth reading about (kind of?):

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

https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/opinion/columns/your-voice/2024/01/03/one-year-later-new-college-is-a-less-welcoming-school/72076705007/

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.

Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs

@sstrader @merileedkarr @alexwild

TLDR: It turns out fascists are incapable of operating a university. Shocking.

@sstrader @merileedkarr @alexwild In 1967, New College was the only college that recruited me. It looked interesting, but I went to #UCSC instead. The governance and academic changes being made by Governor #DeSantis will turn it into an intellectual cesspool.