Posted on 07/02/2021 4:31:27 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Florida's Gov. Ron DeSantis is as impressive as they come and his record to show for it continues.
According to an op-ed in the Tampa Bay Times by Scott Gerber, he's now targeting the leftist university monolith.
Florida’s Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis recently signed a bill to protect against indoctrination in the state’s colleges and universities. The new law, which went into effect on July 1, requires Florida’s public colleges and universities to conduct an annual survey measuring “intellectual freedom and viewpoint diversity” on their campuses. The law’s goal is to assess “the extent to which competing ideas and perspectives are presented” and how free students, faculty, and staff feel “to express their beliefs and viewpoints.”
The Florida law does not specify what will be done with the survey results, but Gov. DeSantis suggested that budget cuts could result if universities and colleges are found to be “indoctrinating” students. “It used to be thought that a university campus was a place where you’d be exposed to a lot of different ideas,” DeSantis said. “Unfortunately, now the norm is really these are more intellectually repressive environments.”
It's the intolerable setup that forces taxpayers of all ideological persuasions to fund far-left universities, where only leftists can get hired at them, leaving a great void of "viewpoint diversity." Kids today go to college never hearing a word of conservative thought, and to please their professors and get the 'A's they want, must mouth leftist tropes to pass, because who'd want to take a chance otherwise? Worse still, the lack of ideological diversity serves to drive the viewpoints further and further left, like a bus with no brakes, no checks and balances, no respectable opposition. That explains the state we've gotten to, with university professors the craziest people on the left,
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DeSantis is taking them on... we've got a winner.
You get 8 months of non humid/hot weather?? I only get 4 months of non h/h. You must live on the Georgia border.
This doesn’t go far enough. The state shouldn’t be funding universities at all
>> LOL I need a clerk to check my typo’s.
On your “typo’s” [sic]? Yeah, you’re right on that - none of us can proofread our own stuff.
My undergrad schools - Stetson and U of M - nag the hell out of me for money. So does grad school - Embry-Riddle.
About 10 years ago my wife and I visited all our colleges. schools. Not one of them are getting a cent. OTOH, we’ve endowed 4 scholarships at Hillsdale College in Michigan - so far.
‘A’ students come back to teach; ‘C’ students come back to endow.
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