{"id":1802823,"date":"2023-01-11T17:18:55","date_gmt":"2023-01-11T22:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1802823"},"modified":"2023-01-11T17:26:58","modified_gmt":"2023-01-11T22:26:58","slug":"hillsdale-of-the-south-desantis-appointees-are-restoring-floridas-public-liberal-arts-college-to-classical-roots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hillsdale-of-the-south-desantis-appointees-are-restoring-floridas-public-liberal-arts-college-to-classical-roots\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Hillsdale Of The South\u2019: DeSantis Appointees Are Restoring Florida\u2019s Public Liberal Arts College To Classical Roots"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhillsdale-of-the-south-desantis-appointees-are-restoring-floridas-public-liberal-arts-college-to-classical-roots%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1802823&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>After Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/desantis-shakes-up-leadership-of-woke-florida-college-appoints-conservative-majority\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Announcement<\/a> last week he was appointing six new members to the New College of Florida\u2019s Board of Trustees, leftists have gone berserk. <\/p>\n<p>The college is small and liberal in Sarasota. Functioning as Florida\u2019s honors college, it has just slightly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncf.edu\/about\/campus-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">More than<\/a> 700 students, 90 faculty members and full-time staff. It has expanded its critical race theory-type initiatives in recent years. \u201cgender studies\u201d Include a program \u201cgender diversity center\u201d  \u201cqueer studies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis plans to transform the school by appointing enough trustees to give the board of 13 a conservative majority. He also hopes to use the same classical education model used by Hillsdale College in southern Michigan, which has a core curriculum that emphasizes the Western tradition and classical texts. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is our hope that New College of Florida will become Florida\u2019s classical college, more along the lines of a Hillsdale of the South,\u201d James Uthmeier is the Chief of Staff for DeSantis <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/desantis-shakes-up-leadership-of-woke-florida-college-appoints-conservative-majority\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">National Review<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>DeSantis\u2019 appointments include Charles Kesler, a senior fellow at the Claremont Institute and editor of the Claremont Review of Books, a conservative literary publication; Mark Bauerlein, a professor emeritus at Emory University and editor at the ecumenical journal First Things Magazine; Matthew Spalding, vice president of the graduate school of government at Hillsdale College in Washington, D.C.; and Chris Rufo, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and conservative investigative journalist.<\/p>\n<p>The New College will be transformed by the conservative majority. They plan to restructure its administration and academic department, and create a new core curriculum. The left is furious.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times\u2019 Michelle Goldberg condescendingly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/01\/09\/opinion\/chris-rufo-florida-ron-desantis.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Writes<\/a> That \u201cDeSantis Allies Plot the Hostile Takeover of a Liberal College,\u201d characterizing the new majority\u2019s efforts as an \u201cassault\u201d On \u201cacademic freedom\u201d This punishes every professor \u201cwhose worldview is at odds with the Republican Party.\u201d The Daily Beast <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/new-college-of-florida-students-call-out-ron-desantis-and-christopher-rufo-takeover\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">laments<\/a> \u201cThey Were Loving College. Then Ron DeSantis Got Involved\u201d (The article quotes a New College sophomore at 22 who is in serious trouble and, after hearing the news, decided to take action. \u201cgot really sad and then just, like, laid down\u201d). Let&#8217;s just say that the media was a wreck (and sent angry tweets). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chronicle.com\/article\/after-condemning-trendy-ideology-in-higher-ed-floridas-governor-targets-a-small-college\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Keep<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/169937\/new-college-desantis-rufo-crackdown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Coming<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Despite all the media attention, the new trustees have not lost their determination. Rufo spoke to Goldberg \u201cWe anticipate that this is going to be a process that involves conflict.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Spalding, in a statement that he provided to The Federalist, denied the notion that the conservative board members would remake the New College into an exact copy of Hillsdale. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a professor, dean, and vice president at a successful liberal arts college, my focus is on the work at hand: restoring New College\u2019s \u2018distinctive mission\u2019 as the \u2018residential liberal arts honors college\u2019 of Florida,\u201d He said.\u00a0\u201cI appreciate the complimentary nods to Hillsdale College, but we are not going to serve New College\u2019s mission by remaking it into a carbon copy of another institution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Spalding instead is interested in bringing the New College to its former home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced last week he was appointing six new members to the New College of Florida\u2019s Board of Trustees, leftists have gone berserk. The small liberal arts school in Sarasota, Florida, is regarded as the most left-leaning college in the state. Functioning as Florida\u2019s honors college, it has just slightly more [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1130,"featured_media":1802826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[14478,14476,10757,13102,4023,4980,6919,9996,5206,3799,14477,14217,3960],"class_list":["post-1802823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-hillsdale","tag-appointees","tag-arts","tag-classical","tag-college","tag-desantis","tag-federalist","tag-floridas","tag-liberal","tag-public","tag-restoring","tag-roots","tag-south"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1130"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1802823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1802826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1802823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1802823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1802823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}