I'm very interested in how colleges will respond to these 'divisive concept' bills becoming law. If you are too, here's one example. The University of Florida just sent a presentation to faculty on the newly signed Stop Woke Act...

First there’s a short intro by Kent Fuchs, the president. He says the presentation makes clear “you may continue to address important academic issues in your classes” and thanks profs for their “important role” as “objective" educators and teachers.

Now for the slides. There's a distillation of the law's "core message," which is that profs shouldn't preach their personal views as gospel, next to a picture of some sunflowers.

There are slides that summarize what's now banned under the law, and then assurance that these concepts can still be discussed, just without endorsement.

How these laws play out in practice will be something to watch. If your college has sent around this kind of advice, please send it to me! Emma.pettit @chronicle .com

@EmmaJanePettit I finally stopped laughing thinking about my Physics and Engineering profs reading the slide about facts and theories and different interpretations.

@EmmaJanePettit So, basically this says a professor teaching history, talking about WWII, would have to present pros and cons about Hitler and allow for a student who believes the Holocaust is fake news to have an open space to say so and never refute that to their class… smdh!

@EmmaJanePettit Legislated “both sides” no matter what. Evidence of, say, climate change has to be moderated along side the guy who insists humans are too small and insignificant to affect Gods creation? Gonna work out great.

@EmmaJanePettit It's fricken college!

@EmmaJanePettit I view educators as vectors for the transference of knowledge. They aren't news personalities tasked with moderating information in a "Fair & Balanced" (smh) way. What's being asked here is for educators to control the way in-class conversations develop - which I disagree with.

@EmmaJanePettit Thank you very much for sharing these. If you have some way of posting or otherwise sharing the full slide set (as PPT?), that would be very helpful indeed.