cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/15832268

The New College of Florida is under fire after what appears to be hundreds of books that have been wiped from its collection and discarded on the street.

The right-wing war on knowledge continues to be a five-alarm fire for American (and world) Democracy and getting worse by the day…

  • SeaJ
    14•4 months ago

    Wow. Reading up on the school on Wikipedia, DeSantis turned it into a dumpster fire.

    In early 2023, Governor Ron DeSantis overhauled the college’s board of trustees, appointing six new members including Christopher Rufo, Matthew Spalding, Charles R. Kesler, Mark Bauerlein, Debra Jenks, and Eddie Speir. Of those, the first four are well-known conservative activists who appear to live outside Florida.

    Turnover has been terrible:

    By mid-July 2023, over a third of the existing faculty had left the college, many choosing to resign or take a leave of absence as a direct result of the conservative takeover.

    And of course the president is way overpaid:

    In October 2023, when formally announced as New College’s new president, Corcoran’s total annual compensation of over $1 million drew scrutiny from media and experts in academic and executive compensation, significantly in excess of expected pay for the president of a public university with a small student body population.

    That is about how much the president of the University of Washington makes which has 52k students. There are a whopping 689 students at the New College. Tuition is $7000/yr. A massive chunk of a student’s tuition ($1450) goes to paying one conservative fuck head.

    They asked for $400 million to transform the school into a conservative shithole. Really fiscally responsible.