C_Clayton_Jones
Diamond Member
Republican Florida governor’s attack on universities suffers twin embarrassments of book dump and spending scandal
‘It has been a rough month for Ron DeSantis’s rightwing rebranding of higher education in Florida. Embarrassments at two high-profile universities where the Republican governor has been waging his culture war against “woke” have forced his administration into something of a cleanup.
Sarasota’s New College, the once liberal arts school subjected to a “hostile takeover” by well-rewarded, ultra-conservative DeSantis allies, was exposed by the city’s Herald-Tribune for dumping thousands of library books, including a clear-out of its gender and diversity center.
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Across the state in Gainesville, an equally intriguing scandal is playing out at the University of Florida (UF), where journalists on the student newspaper the Independent Florida Alligator exposed the free-spending habits of Ben Sasse, the Republican hard-right former Nebraska senator who resigned in July as UF president following a turbulent 17-month tenure.
Sasse was DeSantis’s hand-picked choice, and ultimately the only finalist for the job in 2022 after the governor signed a law throwing a blanket of secrecy over the selection process.’
www.theguardian.com
Of course, there’s no such thing as ‘woke’ as misrepresented and lied about by conservatives.
‘It has been a rough month for Ron DeSantis’s rightwing rebranding of higher education in Florida. Embarrassments at two high-profile universities where the Republican governor has been waging his culture war against “woke” have forced his administration into something of a cleanup.
Sarasota’s New College, the once liberal arts school subjected to a “hostile takeover” by well-rewarded, ultra-conservative DeSantis allies, was exposed by the city’s Herald-Tribune for dumping thousands of library books, including a clear-out of its gender and diversity center.
[…]
Across the state in Gainesville, an equally intriguing scandal is playing out at the University of Florida (UF), where journalists on the student newspaper the Independent Florida Alligator exposed the free-spending habits of Ben Sasse, the Republican hard-right former Nebraska senator who resigned in July as UF president following a turbulent 17-month tenure.
Sasse was DeSantis’s hand-picked choice, and ultimately the only finalist for the job in 2022 after the governor signed a law throwing a blanket of secrecy over the selection process.’
‘Far from ideal’: DeSantis’s war on ‘woke’ colleges goes painfully awry
Republican Florida governor’s attack on universities suffers twin embarrassments of book dump and spending scandal
www.theguardian.com
Of course, there’s no such thing as ‘woke’ as misrepresented and lied about by conservatives.
