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
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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: WE-DEFY.org @opensocietyuniv @CEUDemInst #YourCampisIsNext
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If the grift wasn’t already obvious 6 months ago, it’s obvious now:
insidehighered.com/news/gove…
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Reported for teaching about race! We are in the sunken place and it is our very democracy that will suffer unless we stand up to this madness: “Her students reported her for a lesson on race. Can she trust them again?” washingtonpost.com/education…
Shocking.
DEVELOPING: New College of Florida plummets in national ranking amid DeSantis conservative overhaul
My latest for @HeraldTribune: heraldtribune.com/story/news…
Our 2nd panel is tomorrow! “Young People Can Change America: Youth Voting & Political Power” w @davidhogg111 @MaisieBrownJxn @BriannaCea @AndrewGoodmanF's Evan Malbrough!
Register: bard.zoom.us/webinar/registe…
Info: altnewcollege.org/courses
🙏 @BARDCCE @opensocietyuniv @PENamerica
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"Alt New College is a resource of free short courses, tutorials, and lectures for New College students who feel they’ve been deprived of the education for which they had signed up." #AltNewCollege
ALT NEW COLLEGE grew over the summer out of a collaboration with @DEFYmovement @bardcce and @opensocietyuniv with additional support from @PENamerica and members of the @SaveNewCollege community.
#academicfreedom #savenewcollege
fastcompany.com/90954258/how…
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 altnewcollege.org/courses to register
Join the fight @ALTNEWCOLLEGE
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
In #Florida, PEN America partnered with the “Alt New College,” which was inaugurated this week as a response to the unprecedented hostile takeover of the New College of Florida and resulting limits on academic expression. pen.org/press-release/pen-am… (11/x)
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“We see no difference between what’s gone on in Hungary, Russia, Afghanistan or Myanmar and what’s going on in Florida….We decided to do what we’ve done in other places….provide a pathway for students to continue a rigorous liberal arts education.” tinyurl.com/yz6pdna2
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Join @mashagessen and #JudithButler for a conversation on the "Authoritarian Attack on Gender Studies" intro'd by former @NewCollegeofFL student Libby Harrity.
Monday Sept 18 @ 2:30pm ET.
Register and info at altnewcollege.org/courses
Thanks @BardCollege @opensocietyuniv
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They're destroying @NewCollegeofFL, part 738 —
"At New College of Florida, a ‘ridiculously high’ number of faculty are gone"
via @TB_Times
tampabay.com/news/education/…
#FlaPol
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Attn: @zacjanderson @IanJHodgson @swalker_7 @divyadivyadivya, here’s where even basic functions at NCF start breaking down
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. chronicle.com/article/a-visi…
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Book bans in the United States are being implemented in record numbers, but new analysis reveals that something else is at an all-time high — #LGBTQ+ book sales.
advocate.com/books/lgbtq-boo…
Prediction: The average GPA of (New) New College students admitted tanks so these grifters can collect $$$ in bonus for enacting DeSantis and Rufos political theater, taking over NCF w claims it is failing and then destroying the colleges’ academic standards & claiming victory.
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Follow the $$$. 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.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis Evicts a 70-Year-Old Sarasota Car Museum: Out in 30 Days. The museum is on property owned by New College. That’s the liberal arts college DeSantis has aimed his anti-woke ire at. #DeSantisDestroysFlorida motorbiscuit.com/florida-gov…
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So the BOG has concerns about @NewCollegeofFL accountability plan.
(The one that shouts MONEY MONEY MONEY! STUDENTS STUDENTS STUDENTS!)
The special meeting has not been noticed yet. In the meantime check out this opinion from NCF Freedom
ncffreedom.org/blog/f/the-20…
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New College of Florida Alumna with actual academic credentials rebuts Bob Allen's BS.
heraldtribune.com/story/opin…