In order to maintain the educational model of New College of Florida’s dedication to the institution’s initial ideals, Governor DeSantis has outlined his plan to introduce much-needed change.
Recently, Governor DeSantis announced intentions to add six new people from various backgrounds to the distinguished NCF Board of Trustees. These talented people, who range from activist Chris Rufo and attorney Debra Jenks to renowned educators Drs. Mark Bauerlein, Matthew Spalding, and Charles Kesler, as well as acclaimed educator Jason ‘Eddie’ Speir, will offer a wealth of experience and expertise in their various fields. The Florida Board Governor’s seventh appointee serves as additional support.
This public college is now prepared to undergo a significant transition as the members attempt to restructure its ideological curriculum and entire campus atmosphere with a full-strength board in place.
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“As Governor DeSantis stated in his second inaugural speech: ‘We must ensure that our institutions of higher learning are focused on academic excellence and the pursuit of truth.’ Starting today, the ship is turning around. New College of Florida, under the governor’s new appointees, will be refocused on its founding mission of providing a world-class quality education with an exceptional focus on the classics,” Bryan Griffin, the press secretary for DeSantis, said in a statement.
NCF currently lists among its values “a just, diverse, equitable and inclusive community,” echoing the progressive ideology of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI), better known as critical race theory. The school is “actively working toward eliminating outcome disparities for underrepresented and underserved groups,” it says in its values section.
“It is our hope that New College of Florida will become Florida’s classical college, more along the lines of a Hillsdale of the South,” James Uthmeier, Chief of Staff for DeSantis said.
The school honors its Latinx legacy in a variety of ways, including lectures, videos, workshops, and concerts. In order to celebrate all facets of diversity within their community, they provide support services including the Office of Inclusive Excellence, a Gender Studies program, and the Gender & Diversity Center.
According to its webpage, NCF’s Office of Inclusive Excellence, the campus’s DEI office, generates “campus-wide DEI key metrics and milestones, and supports departmental implementation” in addition to documenting “outcomes and learnings from Phase I of the Inclusive Campus Climate program.”
The gender studies program at NCF offers a stimulating and diverse curriculum that touches on issues including community relations, feminist theory, and queer history. Students who take this course of study will be given the skills needed for fulfilling careers in fields like non-profit management or program organization!
Students at Berkeley High School have access to a variety of “gender identity affirmation resources” that can be used to alter their names legally and have their pronouns accepted.
The Florida legislature founded New College of Florida in 2001 with the goal of giving its high-ability students a motivating and interesting educational experience. It was created as a distinct organization from the University of South Florida System to guarantee that these chosen students would have access to a high-quality education that was catered to their individual academic demands.
During his inaugural speech, Governor DeSantis pledged to put the reform of the educational system first in an effort to refute prevailing ideological assumptions.
“We must ensure school systems are responsive to parents and to students, not partisan interest groups, and we must ensure that our institutions of higher learning are focused on academic excellence and the pursuit of truth, not the imposition of trendy ideology,” DeSantis said
“Today, Governor DeSantis made six appointments to the New College Board of Trustees. These appointments fill positions that were previously vacant or expired, and I am grateful that New College will now have a full board,” NCF President Dr. Patricia Okker said in a Friday statement sent to the Daily Caller. “My thanks to the Governor for today’s announcement and for the slate of new board members. I look forward to getting to know them and working with them to ensure New College continues to serve our students, community, and state in the years to come.”
“I would also like to thank all our outgoing board members for their time and service,” Okker added.
