Tuesday, August 20, 2024

New College of Florida Is Dumping Books -- and Losing Professors

This past week provided plenty of reminders that Florida governor Ron DeSantis's conservative overhaul of public higher education in his state still isn't over ...

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Jeff will love this. He is huge into censorship so long as it's Republicans doing it.

#1 | Posted by Sycophant at 2024-08-20 04:59 PM

Hundreds of New College of Florida library books, including many on LGBTQ+ topics and religious studies, are headed to a landfill.

Is it the same landfill where the GQP dumps the remains of dead American troops?

#2 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2024-08-20 05:03 PM

I met some students from New College on a Spring Break trip to Florida in 1991. That was my first and only encounter with actual toad lickers.

#3 | Posted by anton at 2024-08-20 05:18 PM

I read this in our local paper a few days ago. I thought about posting it. DeSantis and his idiot Diaz, along with some seriously deranged legistlators are destroying what remains of the Florida education system. Lies to cover it up, too. All in the name of "parental rights" even at higher ed, universities and colleges. All to remake educational institutions into a right-wing indoctrination camps.

#4 | Posted by YAV at 2024-08-20 05:51 PM

One of my siblings is a graduate of New College. She did very well for herself in her career. I'll bet she is glad she is now retired and doesn't have to bring up her Alma mater ...

#5 | Posted by catdog at 2024-08-20 07:06 PM

Books? Only Communists read books.

#6 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-08-20 08:54 PM

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