Many professors are giving up coveted tenured positions and blaming their departures on Governor Ron DeSantis and his effort to reshape the higher education system to fit his conservative principles.
Gov. Ron DeSantis had just taken office in 2019 when the University of Florida lured Neil H. Buchanan, a prominent economist and tax law scholar, from George Washington University. Now, just four years after he started at the university, 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.” He is not the only liberal-leaning professo
Florida State University Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs Jim Clark announced today the university will combine the College of Education and College of Health and Human Sciences
<p>"I plan to carry on teaching the way I always have, resisting the state’s decrees. The point of education is to produce not just pliant cogs but thinking citizens with knowledge of the rich and expansive ways to be human. That is genuine freedom."</p>
<p>"I plan to carry on teaching the way I always have, resisting the state’s decrees. The point of education is to produce not just pliant cogs but thinking citizens with knowledge of the rich and expansive ways to be human. That is genuine freedom."</p>
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