A Coalition to Defend Educational Freedom in America (and save a small public college from a hostile political takeover). Keep politics out of our classrooms!
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(Save New College) Defend Educational Freedom retweeted
31 May 2024
Two sets of causes, two assessments of culpability. But one is reality-based and the other is a fiction. I suggest readers lay the blame where it actually belongs: as with so much else about New College, with Richard Corcoran and his band of pirates.
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(Save New College) Defend Educational Freedom retweeted
30 May 2024
NCF faculty clarify what actually happened at graduation heraldtribune.com/story/opin…
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(Save New College) Defend Educational Freedom retweeted
28 May 2024
Outrageous. I was at this ceremony. Nothing the students did merited any conduct violations. There was no organized protest, no attempt to shut down the speaker, nothing beyond the momentary disruptions of a few shouts and one brief, halfhearted chant. ncf.edu/news/commencement-co…
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(Save New College) Defend Educational Freedom retweeted
10 May 2024
Graduating New College students have completed an academically rigorous degree and deserve to have a graduation that celebrates their achievements on their own terms. Please donate now to support this wonderful event: tinyurl.com/2p8uwrz8
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(Save New College) Defend Educational Freedom retweeted
20 Sep 2023
Actually, the @usnews methodology document states that the Peer Assessment data were collected in the spring and summer of 2023, which means that the last 6 months absolutely could impact this metric, weighted at 20% — next highest category, graduation rate, is 16%
18 Sep 2023
US News made major adjustments to the rankings, and the data lags as much as 2 years on several measures. The 2023 rankings have nothing to do with what has happened in the last 6 months. Meanwhile, NCF enrollment is FINALLY growing. Thanks!
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(Save New College) Defend Educational Freedom retweeted
9 Sep 2023
Note that this investigation is specifically about disability discrimination.
So when a certain trustee spouts off about abolishing the DOE, he should clarify that he’s mad about the College being held accountable for discrimination based on disability.
Who does that??
9 Sep 2023
BREAKING: The U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights has officially launched an investigation into New College of Florida’s board, administration.
This comes following a complaint filed to the DOE in late Aug.
My latest for @HeraldTribune: heraldtribune.com/story/news…
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(Save New College) Defend Educational Freedom retweeted
15 Sep 2023
Important note here is that the previous president was on the job less than four years, and had already turned around what the president four years ago had gotten wrong. (See: Red-Flag Scandal.)
(Also see: Pandemic, while we're at it.)
15 Sep 2023
"They said you give us $6 million and we're going to hire more faculty and those faculty who are going to draw more students. In 4 years, we'll get 1200 students. we gave them the $6 million. They hired more faculty. and in 4 years, they went from 850 students down to 600."
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(Save New College) Defend Educational Freedom retweeted
15 Sep 2023
Good morning,
I’m in Tampa today where interim New College of Florida president Richard Corcoran is set to speak at a Tiger Bay forum at noon.
Follow along for updates for @HeraldTribune/@USATODAY:
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(Save New College) Defend Educational Freedom retweeted
8 Sep 2023
So you are saying that you knew ~30 were leaving, but instead of getting busy hiring new qualified faculty you denied tenure to ones who were staying and created a hostile environment for folks who had no plans to leave...
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(Save New College) Defend Educational Freedom retweeted
8 Sep 2023
EXCLUSIVE: A federal complaint filed with the DOJ, DOE alleges discrimination at New College of Florida under BoT, DeSantis-appointed leadership.
The complaint calls for a federal investigation into New College’s leadership.
My latest for @HeraldTribune: heraldtribune.com/story/news…
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(Save New College) Defend Educational Freedom retweeted
22 Aug 2023
New College student orientation leaders push back when told to remove Pride, BLM pins heraldtribune.com/story/news…
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(Save New College) Defend Educational Freedom retweeted
18 Aug 2023
Ok micro-rant over. It just irks me to see stories that are rewritten press releases about topics on my beat that are soooo much deeper than that.
I need caffeine.
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(Save New College) Defend Educational Freedom retweeted
18 Aug 2023
TLDR: New College didn’t just find mold and say “ok let’s send students to hotels” , they recruited more students (thru athletics) than their facilities could handle, gave athletes the best dorms, sent upperclassmen to the Pei dorms despite mold reports finding them uninhabitable
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(Save New College) Defend Educational Freedom retweeted
18 Aug 2023
Peace and love, but if you’re gonna report on this you gotta get the full picture.
Mold isn’t the only reason New College’s housing situation is in the state that it’s in.
In fact, I reported on how the influx of athletes prompted this over a month ago
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I just uploaded “2023-07-28 New College of Florida BOT Academic, Student, and External Affairs committee meeting�… vimeo.com/849655559
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I just uploaded “Untitled” to #Vimeo: vimeo.com/849596677
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(Save New College) Defend Educational Freedom retweeted
28 Jul 2023
New College of Florida may have violated federal law by dangling increased pay to admissions staff for bigger enrollment numbers. chroni.cl/3QgXxlG
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(Save New College) Defend Educational Freedom retweeted
27 Jul 2023
New College of Florida nets record number of new students, but at academic cost heraldtribune.com/story/news…
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