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Dreaming among the stars. Love art , animals and reading. Lover of nature. Hope to travel one day and see some of the world.
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Nothing good, I guarantee you.
December 31, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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Any, I think this is a opinion piece parading as reporting, a Free Press piece under a New York Times banner.
Lots more in my post:
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The NYT Recruiting Brochure for New College
A failing Ron DeSantis higher ed experiment gets a boost
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December 28, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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The article accepts the idea that New College was a liberal enclave, and what is happening now is a rebalancing. I think this view is fundamentally wrong, embracing the assumptions of those who see their job as to save campuses from liberalism by any means necessary.
Whatever the culture and political leaning of the campus, it reflected the organic evolution of the the people on that campus, rather than a government-mandated imposition of values. The emphasis on ideological balance as a goal of higher education elides the forced nature of the New College project, the reliance on a series of coercive strategies to turn a campus against its traditions and culture. A gender studies program that students found value in is not equivalent to political appointees imposing a Charlie Kirk statute on campus.
December 28, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
As soon as I saw the headline, I had a pretty good guess who wrote it. Hartocollis is the go-to reporter to restore the reputation of campus conservatives. She led the Times campaign to push out Claudine Gay at Harvard, which was initiated by New College trustee Chris Rufo.
pic of Hartocollis stories about Ilya Shapiro and the wife of a Princeton professor fired for having sex with students
December 28, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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New College is a DeSantis pet project, a Potemkin Campus that must be made real at any cost. While the NY Times notes it is the most expensive in the state, it does not tell readers what an extraordinary outlier it is. Freedom isn’t free, and a right-wing campus makeover is very expensive it seems.
graph showing New College cost per degree is about $500K, while the next highest is about $150K. Most universities are in the 50-60K range
December 28, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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The Times interviews and quotes the university president, who says things like the old New College “was ‘a little Club Med' for people who were all ideologically the same." He is only identified as a former state education commissioner. This leaves out a lot. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nyt-re...
Corcoran is a former politician. More specifically, he was the Speaker of the Florida House. He has spent his 35 year career working in Republican politics. Because of term limits, Corcoran needed a job in 2018. Ron DeSantis appointed him to be Education Commissioner. After a failed bid to become the President of Florida State University in 2021, he briefly worked as a lobbyist until a Ron DeSantis-appointed committee fired the previous head of New College and appointed Corcoran. Corcoran got a pay package four times lartger than his predecessor, worth about 1.2 million dollars, despite lacking basic qualifications for the job. After he was appointed, Corcoran published a book praising DeSantis: Standing His Ground: The Inside Story of Ron DeSantis’s Rise and Battle for Freedom. With a foreword by Ron DeSantis! What a get!
December 28, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
The Times only quotes current students & faculty on the record, who are not so critical. Which sort of makes sense if selected into campus or don't want to be fired.
Nothing from former faculty/students or off-the-record. A recent Inside Higher Ed piece quoted current faculty with a different view:
What about interviewing some faculty off the record to gain a franker view? For example, the Inside Higher Ed reporter Josh Moody did just this, and found more critical perspectives among current faculty, including one who said. It’s kind of like a Ponzi scheme: Students keep leaving, so they have to recruit bigger and bigger cohorts of students, and then they say, ‘Biggest class ever’ because they have to backfill all the students who have left.
December 28, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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It is not just what is happening at New College: discussion of the broader Florida environment of limiting freedom to teach and learn...is just not discussed. No mention of the Stop WOKE Act or other educational gag orders. No mention that the online right now veto which faculty leaders are selected
Faculty are afraid to talk about a wide range of subjects, such as race, gender, or anything that could be taken as criticism of the state government. State law encourages students to secretly record faculty in order to get them punished for wrongspeak. One faculty member in Florida described the new classroom environment: Since Mr. DeSantis’s crackdown, I’ve seen my colleagues harassed and investigated for addressing topical issues, even outside the classroom. The climate of fear gives the government precisely the result it wants. Administrators and faculty members alike practice anticipatory obedience to avoid even the appearance of wokeness, stifling the sort of open and civil discussions that lead students to develop their own views.
December 28, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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The reporter, Anemona Hartocollis, argues that things are not so bad. Students are studying the Odyssey! She uncritically shares the views of the college President about the need for campus debate. This is yadayadayadaing an ideological purge. Here are things that are not mentioned:
After New College closed it’s Gender and Diversity Center it removed books from its library, and sent them to a landfill. Presumably, this was cheaper than burning them. At the same time the College was seeking new money to fight cancel culture it was firing people for their political views. For example, the free speech organization Fire reports that “New College of Florida trustee Christopher Rufo bragged about violating the First Amendment, tweeting that the college would not renew visiting history professor Erik Wallenberg’s contract, citing his “left-wing” teaching, views, and past criticism of university leadership.”
December 28, 2025 at 8:01 PM