Professors from across the country have long been lured to Florida’s public colleges and universities, with the educators attracted to the research opportunities, student bodies, and the warm weather.
But for a swath of liberal-leaning professors, many of them holding highly coveted tenured positions, they’ve felt increasingly out of place in the Sunshine State. And some of them are pointing to the conservative administration of Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis as the reason for their departures, according to The New York Times.
DeSantis, who was elected to the governorship in 2018 and was easily reelected last fall, has over the course of his tenure worked to put a conservative imprint on a state where moderation was once a driving force in state politics. In recent years, DeSantis has railed against the current process by which tenure is awarded, and with a largely compliant GOP-controlled legislature, he’s imposed conservative education reforms across the state.
You write that like it’s impossible. Give it time.
From Hitler to Pol Pot, intellectuals are always among the first arrested in an authoritarian society.
I have a PhD and wrote an article (that no one will ever read) obliquely criticizing Trump and every once in a while I wonder if that is what will get me shot… but it will probably be the pipe bombs.
You guys sound like fucking Jehova’s Witnesses.
Keep being you and making the world a better place. Buy a gun anyway. I don’t want rednecks to be the only people with firearms during the next election.
You write it like it’s already happening. It’s not. Stop the fake outrage.
Lol, I literally named two HISTORICAL examples. Show me the present examples I wrote of.
No? Can’t find any because they’re not there? That’s your clue.
It’s not me faking the outrage here, and you need a mirror.
Yeah, communism happened in the past too. There are no professors being prosecuted and flogged in the streets of Florida. get over it.
Still faking the outrage? Can’t get over it? I guess you didn’t find your mirror then, lol.