[DeweyCA]

Dang! This is the way it is done. I, and others, have spent decades saying that conservative governors should appoint conservative Trustees to the boards of their universities, so that the Trustees can then have influence on the selection of faculty and administrators. That is the way the conservatives in the Southern Baptist Convention were able to get the liberal profs out of their seminaries back in the 1980s. The conservatives got conservatives to be elected as the convention President, who then appointed conservatives as Trustees to the seminary boards, who then got rid of the liberal profs. This is exactly what conservative governors should be doing. DeSantis is the Man!!

[dfwgator]

Back when I was looking at which Florida school to attend, I considered New College, which then was part of the USF system.

But I learned, the student body made Cal-Berkeley look conservative.

I can imagine there are heads exploding there now.

[livius]

Good! In fact, great!

One of the reasons our colleges no longer teach anything and degrees have become meaningless and even employers aren’t asking for them is because of the infestation of lefty wokeism, not only in the high-end private universities, but in your basic state university.

It can only be stopped by appointing good people to the trustees or regents.

DeSantis is on a roll! Happy New Year, y’all!

[Salvavida]

Nice, but flip the state universities. FSU should be at the top of the list

[Joe Brower]

This school will definitely benefit from having some adults in charge.

I had a full scholarship to New College when I graduated from VHS in 1979 -- I bailed it to go into the Navy. It was pretty liberal then, but more 'hippy dippy' liberal than the militant Marxists so prevalent today. I figured the world already had enough starving philosophers and didn't need another.

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[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Darn that DeSantis. Appointing Dumb-O-Crats and GOPee trustees to that college board! /sarc

[BuchananBrigadeTrumpFan]

If Republicans had any brains or balls, there would be ZERO funding at state universities for “gender studies” or any of the other farcical “studies” programs in red states.

[CFW]

He not only talks the talk, but walks the walk. Usually GOP governors are convinced they have to appoint liberals in order to be “bi-partisan” and “take the high road”.

I’ve never understood why they fall for that line.

[blackdog]

Six poor lambs to slaughter, but it’s a start.

[King_Corey]

Our loser of a governor in Texas has failed the UT and A&M and other state colleges by NOT getting ultra conservatives on the boards of regents.

[Hiddigeigei]

DeSantis is the Man!!
I want to keep him here as long as possible as governor and give him a large voice in choosing his replacement. I shutter to think of what we could have had in his last election.

[Chgogal]

DeSantis has a good mind and knows how to execute.