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Don’t worry about indoctrinating college students. It’s not possible. floridaphoenix.com/2025/11/17/d...
Don't worry about indoctrinating college students. It's not possible. • Florida Phoenix
New College of Florida is on its intellectual deathbed. Once an authority-challenging, free-thinking institution for students passionate about learning, a place where difference was celebrated and cre...
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November 17, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Don’t worry about indoctrinating college students. It’s not possible. floridaphoenix.com/2025/11/17/d...
Corcoran’s building his ideal public liberal arts college: no professors, only vice-presidents.
floridapolitics.com/archives/750...
floridapolitics.com/archives/750...
August 7, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Corcoran’s building his ideal public liberal arts college: no professors, only vice-presidents.
floridapolitics.com/archives/750...
floridapolitics.com/archives/750...
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This WSLR radio report notes that, according to a report submitted to the New College of Florida Board of Trustees, the graduation rate is down to 40%. This accountability report will be forwarded to the Board of Governors.
www.podomatic.com/podcasts/sar...
www.podomatic.com/podcasts/sar...
New College has a student retention problem
More than two years after the takeover by the governor, New College of Florida for the first time recognized it has a retention problem. At a special board meeting, the new provost presented to the tr...
www.podomatic.com
May 30, 2025 at 2:49 AM
This WSLR radio report notes that, according to a report submitted to the New College of Florida Board of Trustees, the graduation rate is down to 40%. This accountability report will be forwarded to the Board of Governors.
www.podomatic.com/podcasts/sar...
www.podomatic.com/podcasts/sar...
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America is not a Christian nation.
America is a nation where the rich and powerful have reduced Christianity to just another tool to exploit for their own interests at the expense of the very people Jesus called us to serve: the poor, the hungry, the sick, the stranger, and the oppressed.
America is a nation where the rich and powerful have reduced Christianity to just another tool to exploit for their own interests at the expense of the very people Jesus called us to serve: the poor, the hungry, the sick, the stranger, and the oppressed.
April 30, 2025 at 2:03 AM
America is not a Christian nation.
America is a nation where the rich and powerful have reduced Christianity to just another tool to exploit for their own interests at the expense of the very people Jesus called us to serve: the poor, the hungry, the sick, the stranger, and the oppressed.
America is a nation where the rich and powerful have reduced Christianity to just another tool to exploit for their own interests at the expense of the very people Jesus called us to serve: the poor, the hungry, the sick, the stranger, and the oppressed.
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I really wish reporters would stop saying that there is an effort by the Trump administration to combat antisemitism. It is quite the opposite. There is an effort to foment antisemitism.
forward.com/fast-forward...
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Columbia staff receive texts asking if they're Jewish, as government hunts antisemitic harassment on campus
Barnard employees received the text as Columbia University students plan a new tent encampment to protest the Israel-Hamas war.
forward.com
April 27, 2025 at 5:17 PM
I really wish reporters would stop saying that there is an effort by the Trump administration to combat antisemitism. It is quite the opposite. There is an effort to foment antisemitism.
forward.com/fast-forward...
forward.com/fast-forward...
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One of the reasons you cannot and should not react to the wild swings of the Trump administration against higher education is because most of those swings will ultimately miss, case in point, that Dear Colleague letter targeting "DEI." www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
Education Department’s Anti-DEI Guidance Blocked
Several colleges scrubbed their campuses and websites of DEI-related language and shuttered offices in order to comply with the letter's sweeping demands.
www.insidehighered.com
April 25, 2025 at 1:45 PM
One of the reasons you cannot and should not react to the wild swings of the Trump administration against higher education is because most of those swings will ultimately miss, case in point, that Dear Colleague letter targeting "DEI." www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
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"Can it be stopped?"
Nope. Why would you even want to stop our growth? If our footprints doubles in size, we could pay Richard Corcoran TWO million dollars in salary!
www.wfla.com/news/local-n...
Nope. Why would you even want to stop our growth? If our footprints doubles in size, we could pay Richard Corcoran TWO million dollars in salary!
www.wfla.com/news/local-n...
‘Can it even be stopped?’: Concerns grow over rumored USF Sarasota-Manatee takeover
There are concerns among some in Bradenton that New College of Florida might be taking over USF Sarasota-Manatee.
www.wfla.com
April 25, 2025 at 3:59 PM
"Can it be stopped?"
Nope. Why would you even want to stop our growth? If our footprints doubles in size, we could pay Richard Corcoran TWO million dollars in salary!
www.wfla.com/news/local-n...
Nope. Why would you even want to stop our growth? If our footprints doubles in size, we could pay Richard Corcoran TWO million dollars in salary!
www.wfla.com/news/local-n...
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In case you hadn't noticed:
April 23, 2025 at 3:09 PM
In case you hadn't noticed:
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The problem for Lourdes University, and many other small, private colleges, is that athletics has done little or nothing to attract students who don’t play sports. chroni.cl/3XXX4YI
‘We Have More Athletes Than We Have Fans’
Many small colleges have invested in sports to boost enrollment. What happens when it doesn’t work?
chroni.cl
April 16, 2025 at 12:52 PM
The problem for Lourdes University, and many other small, private colleges, is that athletics has done little or nothing to attract students who don’t play sports. chroni.cl/3XXX4YI
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The arrested guy has worked for NCF President Richard "Coco" Corcoran on and off for a decade. You could say he was Coco's "right hand man."
April 16, 2025 at 10:35 PM
The arrested guy has worked for NCF President Richard "Coco" Corcoran on and off for a decade. You could say he was Coco's "right hand man."
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One need look no further than FL Gov Ron DeSantis's MAGA restructuring of New College Florida or Project 2025 to understand what's behind Trump's assault on America's world class colleges & universities
www.insidehighered.com/news/student...
www.insidehighered.com/news/student...
April 16, 2025 at 11:46 AM
One need look no further than FL Gov Ron DeSantis's MAGA restructuring of New College Florida or Project 2025 to understand what's behind Trump's assault on America's world class colleges & universities
www.insidehighered.com/news/student...
www.insidehighered.com/news/student...
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The face of the Chris Rufo/Ron DeSantis model of higher education at New College. They forced real professionals and educators out to replace them with this.
"New College told ABC 7 that Piccolo, who served as the school’s director of media and marketing, was no longer employed there."
patch.com/florida/brad...
patch.com/florida/brad...
FL Governor's Former Spokesman Accused Of Exposing Himself 4 Times
Frederick Piccolo Jr., a former Ron DeSantis spokesman, faces charges in Sarasota and Manatee counties for exposing himself, records show.
patch.com
April 16, 2025 at 10:25 PM
The face of the Chris Rufo/Ron DeSantis model of higher education at New College. They forced real professionals and educators out to replace them with this.
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Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.
April 15, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.
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We're New College of Florida.
We'll fire you if we don't like what country you're from
suncoastsearchlight.org/new-college-...
We'll fire you if we don't like what country you're from
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New College fires Chinese professor under controversial Florida ‘countries of concern’ law - Suncoast Searchlight
A New College of Florida professor was abruptly fired this month under a controversial state law that limits public universities from employing people from so-called “countries of concern,” including ...
suncoastsearchlight.org
March 28, 2025 at 5:45 PM
We're New College of Florida.
We'll fire you if we don't like what country you're from
suncoastsearchlight.org/new-college-...
We'll fire you if we don't like what country you're from
suncoastsearchlight.org/new-college-...
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I think there’s probably power in being up against people who simply can’t conceive of anyone caring enough to act without being bribed to do so. It means that they cannot imagine, or thereby prepare themselves for, a driven opposition.
“Anyone Who Doesn’t Like Me Works for George Soros: An Airhead Rightwinger’s Guide to Political Debate”
March 31, 2025 at 2:48 AM
I think there’s probably power in being up against people who simply can’t conceive of anyone caring enough to act without being bribed to do so. It means that they cannot imagine, or thereby prepare themselves for, a driven opposition.
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Opinion | DEI is misguided because merit must always be more important than diversity. Here's why colleges must commit to hiring more conservatives.
March 28, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Opinion | DEI is misguided because merit must always be more important than diversity. Here's why colleges must commit to hiring more conservatives.
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It will never be enough. The goal is to break the University, not have them meet demands.
Taunting Columbia with the hope of compliance just sweetens the pot with humiliation.
Taunting Columbia with the hope of compliance just sweetens the pot with humiliation.
In the NYT right now, from a Justice Dept lawyer: “I will tell you right now that Columbia has not in my opinion — and the opinion of the Department of Justice — has not cleaned up their act,” Mr. Terrell said. “They’re not even close, not even close to having those funds unfrozen.”
"acceding to the ... demands is not going to restore the funding." From @danifriedrich.bsky.social in @chronicle.com
www.chronicle.com/article/faci...
www.chronicle.com/article/faci...
March 23, 2025 at 12:32 PM
It will never be enough. The goal is to break the University, not have them meet demands.
Taunting Columbia with the hope of compliance just sweetens the pot with humiliation.
Taunting Columbia with the hope of compliance just sweetens the pot with humiliation.
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They adopted a posture of total submission and it bought them precisely nothing. A lesson for the Trump era www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...
The Trump administration cancels $400 million in grants and contracts to Columbia University.
www.nytimes.com
March 7, 2025 at 6:17 PM
They adopted a posture of total submission and it bought them precisely nothing. A lesson for the Trump era www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...
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The attacks on DEI are a pretext for a much more radical agenda of reversing the gains of the civil rights movement, an objective the Trump administration is pursuing with zeal. A Great Resegregation. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
February 22, 2025 at 4:07 PM
The attacks on DEI are a pretext for a much more radical agenda of reversing the gains of the civil rights movement, an objective the Trump administration is pursuing with zeal. A Great Resegregation. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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Opinion | As a conservative academic, I had to vote for Trump because wokeism has destroyed the integrity of American academia. Here’s why the Department of Education should be led by a pro wrestling executive.
February 16, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Opinion | As a conservative academic, I had to vote for Trump because wokeism has destroyed the integrity of American academia. Here’s why the Department of Education should be led by a pro wrestling executive.