During a recent board meeting, five faculty members applied for tenure (a year earlier than usual) and in a move clearly designed to suggest that the left is still in charge, progressive protesters showed up to demand that tenure be given.
, has taken great pity on the progressive crowd at New College and made all of this the subject ofWhen I first met Matthew Lepinski, the faculty chair of New College of Florida, he was willing to give the right-wingers sent to remake his embattled progressive public school a chance.
This was in January, a few weeks after Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida appointed six activist conservatives, including the culture war strategist Chris Rufo, to New College’s board of trustees. Rufo, the ideological entrepreneur who made critical race theory a Republican boogeyman, was open about his ambition to turn the quirky, L.G.B.T.Q.-friendly liberal arts school into a public version of Hillsdale, a conservative Christian college in Michigan with close ties to both DeSantis and Donald Trump.
But day-to-day, students, parents, and professors told me, life at New College has been pretty much the same. Faculty have mostly been left alone to do their jobs. Corcoran, several professors said, was rarely on campus.
It was all futile. A majority of the trustees voted down each of the candidates in turn as the crowd chanted, “Shame on you!” That’s when Lepinski quit, walking out of the room to cheers.the professors were applying after five years at New College instead of the more customary sixGoldberg’s take is that this is like the end of the world.
"They fired its chief diversity officer and dismantled the diversity, equity and inclusion office…people sent me photographs of gender-neutral signage scraped off school bathrooms"
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