Post by mhbruin on Dec 3, 2023 11:22:44 GMT -8
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Ain't No Sunshine and They're Gone
Under Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' leadership, educators across the Sunshine State are suffering.
Reports earlier this year noted the state has seen its "highest dropout rate" yet under the 2024 GOP presidential candidate.
According to a Sunday report in the New York Times, the newspaper "interviewed a dozen academics — in fields ranging from law to psychology to agronomy — who have left Florida public universities or given their notice, many headed to blue states.
“While emphasizing that hundreds of top academics remain in Florida, a state known for its solid and affordable public university system, they raised concerns that the governor’s policies have become increasingly untenable for scholars and students."
The Times notes, "Some of those professors said political interference contributed to their departures, while other faculty said Florida's reputation had deterred professors elsewhere from joining."
The University of Florida has been hit particularly hard, according to the report, as liberal arts "faculty of color have left," including "Paul Ortiz, a history professor" as well as "a former president of the school’s faculty union," who's "leaving after more than 15 years to join Cornell next summer."
Furthermore, the Times reports, the school of arts "struggles to hire or retain good faculty and graduate students in the current political climate."
The university's law school has seen a "30 percent faculty turnover rate."
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A Florida college reported this week it has seen "27 percent of its student body drop out" since Florida governor and 2024 Republican presidential candidate Ron Desantis' recent takeover, marking "the lowest retention rate of first year students in" the University of South Florida's Sarasota campus' history, The New Republic (TNR) reports.
Per the news outlet, "What DeSantis once described as a culture of 'woke indoctrination' has been replaced by one of censorship: Student murals have been painted over, and student orientation leaders were forbidden from wearing pins expressing support for Black Lives Matter or the LGBTQ+ community, reported The New York Times."
Last month, The Guardian reported, "Approximately 125 undergraduates have transferred to other colleges and universities or dropped out in the face of what some have likened to a hostile, rightwing takeover of NCF. Hampshire College in Massachusetts has admitted 36 New College students ahead of the fall semester after it guaranteed admission to all applicants in good academic standing at the state-run college and pledged not to increase their existing tuition costs."
Economist and tax law scholar Neil H. Buchanan left George Washington University for a University of Florida position in 2019, and according to The Times, "just four years after he started at the university, Dr. Buchanan has given up his tenured job and headed north to teach in Toronto. In a recent column on a legal commentary website, he accused Florida of 'open hostility to professors and to higher education more generally.'"
Ain't No Sunshine and They're Gone
Under Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' leadership, educators across the Sunshine State are suffering.
Reports earlier this year noted the state has seen its "highest dropout rate" yet under the 2024 GOP presidential candidate.
According to a Sunday report in the New York Times, the newspaper "interviewed a dozen academics — in fields ranging from law to psychology to agronomy — who have left Florida public universities or given their notice, many headed to blue states.
“While emphasizing that hundreds of top academics remain in Florida, a state known for its solid and affordable public university system, they raised concerns that the governor’s policies have become increasingly untenable for scholars and students."
The Times notes, "Some of those professors said political interference contributed to their departures, while other faculty said Florida's reputation had deterred professors elsewhere from joining."
The University of Florida has been hit particularly hard, according to the report, as liberal arts "faculty of color have left," including "Paul Ortiz, a history professor" as well as "a former president of the school’s faculty union," who's "leaving after more than 15 years to join Cornell next summer."
Furthermore, the Times reports, the school of arts "struggles to hire or retain good faculty and graduate students in the current political climate."
The university's law school has seen a "30 percent faculty turnover rate."
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A Florida college reported this week it has seen "27 percent of its student body drop out" since Florida governor and 2024 Republican presidential candidate Ron Desantis' recent takeover, marking "the lowest retention rate of first year students in" the University of South Florida's Sarasota campus' history, The New Republic (TNR) reports.
Per the news outlet, "What DeSantis once described as a culture of 'woke indoctrination' has been replaced by one of censorship: Student murals have been painted over, and student orientation leaders were forbidden from wearing pins expressing support for Black Lives Matter or the LGBTQ+ community, reported The New York Times."
Last month, The Guardian reported, "Approximately 125 undergraduates have transferred to other colleges and universities or dropped out in the face of what some have likened to a hostile, rightwing takeover of NCF. Hampshire College in Massachusetts has admitted 36 New College students ahead of the fall semester after it guaranteed admission to all applicants in good academic standing at the state-run college and pledged not to increase their existing tuition costs."
Economist and tax law scholar Neil H. Buchanan left George Washington University for a University of Florida position in 2019, and according to The Times, "just four years after he started at the university, Dr. Buchanan has given up his tenured job and headed north to teach in Toronto. In a recent column on a legal commentary website, he accused Florida of 'open hostility to professors and to higher education more generally.'"