My Letter to the Editor to The Alligator: "Sasha Morel’s June 5, 2026 Opinion piece made some interesting points. However, we should be clear that DEI, in its many varied forms, isn’t mere “politics” for our state universities. Policies governing who gets accepted and who doesn’t, which professors get hired and which do not, which programs and research get funded and which do not, are foundational policies that strike to the core mission of a university. Having students and faculty with a diversity of talents, ideas, and life experiences is very important to a university. At the same time, our 12 Florida state universities are heavily subsidized by hardworking Florida taxpayers, and most of them question the morality, ethics, and even purpose of a university discriminating against people purely based on a person’s ancestral genetics".
Carson Good serves on the Florida Board of Governors