‘The Death Knell for Higher Education in Florida’
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/08/opinion/desantis-florida-history-colleges.html
Thomas B. Edsall:
Over the past decade, a liberal faction within America’s colleges and universities, corporate America and the media has promoted goals of diversity, equity and inclusion, endorsed regulations restricting “harmful speech,” encouraged the ostracization of dissenters and sought to grant enhanced status to the previously marginalized.
Now, in reaction, come the governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, his allies in the state legislature and Republican politicians across America with a blunt-force counter-agenda that uses the coercive power of government to impose its own speech code and ideology on education, including higher education, as well as on private businesses.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/08/opinion/desantis-florida-history-colleges.html
Thomas B. Edsall:
Over the past decade, a liberal faction within America’s colleges and universities, corporate America and the media has promoted goals of diversity, equity and inclusion, endorsed regulations restricting “harmful speech,” encouraged the ostracization of dissenters and sought to grant enhanced status to the previously marginalized.
Now, in reaction, come the governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, his allies in the state legislature and Republican politicians across America with a blunt-force counter-agenda that uses the coercive power of government to impose its own speech code and ideology on education, including higher education, as well as on private businesses.
How to Save Academic Freedom from Ron DeSantis
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/03/ron-desantis-book-illiberal-policies-florida-education/673297/
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/03/ron-desantis-book-illiberal-policies-florida-education/673297/