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DEFY (Defending Educational Freedom for Youth) is a New College student-led coalition organizing to keep partisan politics out of classrooms. @SaveNewCollege
Sarasota, FL
Joined February 2023
Our 1st #DEFYtalk TODAY @3pm ET w @M_Ignatieff in conversation w New College Students sharing Lessons from Viktor Orban's Assault on #EducationalFreedom in Hungary (DeSantis playbook in FL). Watch live: @opensocietyuniv @CEUDemInst #YourCampisIsNext
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RT @ec_leininger: If the grift wasn’t already obvious 6 months ago, it’s obvious now: .
insidehighered.com
Since February, Florida’s public liberal arts college has hired numerous employees with little or no experience in higher education but deep ties to the Republican Party.
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RT @mayawiley: Reported for teaching about race! We are in the sunken place and it is our very democracy that will suffer unless we stand u….
washingtonpost.com
Mary Wood’s school reprimanded her for teaching a book by Ta-Nehisi Coates. Now she hopes her bond with students can survive South Carolina’s new laws.
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RT @jeremycyoung: The reality: the DOE Office of Civil Rights is investigating whether New College intentionally put students with respirat….
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Shocking.
DEVELOPING: New College of Florida plummets in national ranking amid DeSantis conservative overhaul . My latest for @HeraldTribune:
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Our 2nd panel is tomorrow! “Young People Can Change America: Youth Voting & Political Power” w @davidhogg111 @MaisieBrownJxn @BriannaCea @AndrewGoodmanF's Evan Malbrough! . Register: Info: 🙏 @BARDCCE @opensocietyuniv @PENamerica
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RT @PENamerica: "Alt New College is a resource of free short courses, tutorials, and lectures for New College students who feel they’ve bee….
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Join @mashagessen & Judith Butler, intro'd by Libby Harrity (former @NewCollegeofFL student forced to transfer following hostile takeover) for a conversation on the Authoritarian Assault on Gender Studies. Visit to register .Join the fight @ALTNEWCOLLEGE
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In the final analysis, and in the founding spirit of @NewCollegeofFL, we will be responsible for our own education. Which is why we helped build @AltNewCollege.
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RT @JBeckerCCE: “We see no difference between what’s gone on in Hungary, Russia, Afghanistan or Myanmar and what’s going on in Florida….We….
chronicle.com
“We’re offering education, which I think should not be a controversial thing,” one organizer says of the project, announced on Friday. Its target audience: current students at New College of Florida.
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RT @AltNewCollege: Join @mashagessen and #JudithButler for a conversation on the "Authoritarian Attack on Gender Studies" intro'd by former….
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RT @PeterSchorschFL: They're destroying @NewCollegeofFL, part 738 —. "At New College of Florida, a ‘ridiculously high’ number of faculty ar….
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RT @ec_leininger: Attn: @zacjanderson @IanJHodgson @swalker_7 @divyadivyadivya, here’s where even basic functions at NCF start breaking dow….
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We are going to find alt ways to bring him back to our students at New College. We will DEFY these attacks on our academic freedom.
This is what REAL indoctrination looks like:. A Visiting Professor at New College of Florida Drew the Ire of a Trustee. Now He's Out of a Job.
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RT @PENamerica: Book bans in the United States are being implemented in record numbers, but new analysis reveals that something else is at….
advocate.com
Between May 2022 and May 2023, 6.1 million LGBTQ+ fiction books were sold.
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Prediction: The average GPA of (New) New College students admitted tanks so these grifters can collect $$$ in bonus for enacting DeSantis and Rufos political theater, taking over NCF w claims it is failing and then destroying the colleges’ academic standards & claiming victory.
Follow the $$$. DeSantis installed Corcoran and BoT. Corcoran gets a big bonus based on enrollment on day 1. His pea-brain solution is Sportsball and using millions taxpayer $$$ to hire coaches, recruit, offer full ride $, and turn the museum into a gym. We lose, he wins. GRIFT.
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RT @HannahHomer7: Follow the $$$. DeSantis installed Corcoran and BoT. Corcoran gets a big bonus based on enrollment on day 1. His pea-brai….
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RT @ec_leininger: So the BOG has concerns about @NewCollegeofFL accountability plan. (The one that shouts MONEY MONEY MONEY! STUDENTS STUD….
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RT @HannahHomer7: New College of Florida Alumna with actual academic credentials rebuts Bob Allen's BS.
heraldtribune.com
Former longtime university president Esther Barazzone - who is also a New College graduate - says academic freedom is now under threat at the school.
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RT @ec_leininger: @HannahHomer7 “The New College interim president’s response today fails to tell us why Erik Wallenberg’s contract wasn’t….
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