{"id":1816859,"date":"2023-01-20T08:05:09","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T13:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1816859"},"modified":"2023-01-20T08:11:03","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T13:11:03","slug":"with-anti-woke-college-trustee-picks-desantis-chips-away-at-the-political-poison-in-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/with-anti-woke-college-trustee-picks-desantis-chips-away-at-the-political-poison-in-education\/","title":{"rendered":"With Anti-Woke College Trustee Picks, DeSantis Chips Away At The Political Poison In Education"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fwith-anti-woke-college-trustee-picks-desantis-chips-away-at-the-political-poison-in-education%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=1816859&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>Florida Governor. Ron DeSantis <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flgov.com\/2023\/01\/06\/governor-ron-desantis-appoints-six-to-the-new-college-of-florida-board-of-trustees\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">announced<\/a> New College, a small liberal arts institution located in Sarasota Florida, has appointed six new trustees. These new appointments include Christopher Rufo, a conservative education activist, Matthew Spalding, a Hillsdale College professor, and Charles Kesler, a renowned constitutional scholar. DeSantis had accused institutions of higher education of imposing harsh standards. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/01\/06\/ron-desantis-installs-conservatives-new-college-of-florida\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">trendy<\/a>\u201d woke ideologies upon students and marked his administration\u2019s latest attempt at a red-state rebuttal to the leftist orthodoxy that dominates American education.<\/p>\n<p>It was fifth century Athens that Socrates established a shop, spoke freely about the things of the world, and followed truth wherever it would take him. It also happened in 1609 when University of Padua professor Galileo Galilei pointed his telescope at the moon and found that the heavenly orb wasn\u2019t as pure and smooth as everyone said. It also happened in America, when the American Association of University Professors published its 1940 edition. \u201cStatement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure,\u201d Which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aaup.org\/file\/1940%20Statement.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">hailed<\/a> \u201cthe free search for truth and its free exposition.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Conservatives today may be surprised to discover that this principle, independent inquiry, and freedom of speech, was also the source of the famous left-wing declaration called the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ssc.wisc.edu\/~wright\/929-utopias-2013\/Real%20Utopia%20Readings\/Port%20Huron%20Statement.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Port Huron Statement<\/a>This book, authored primarily by Tom Hayden, was written to express regret that the managerial mindset and business interests of Tom Hayden had been distorted. \u201chonest searching\u201d  \u201cthe liberating heritage of higher learning,\u201d A campus that values conformity and is easy to navigate \u201cless open to dissent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You may have laughed at the last sentence. The Port Huron Statement was first published in 1962. Who would argue that the campus has become more open-minded and free-wheeling over time? The academic left has been the most open-minded group, tolerant of all opinions, despite being opposed by Christian fundamentalists and corporate donors who would like their names to be on school buildings. It is a notable victory of the left that they have made clear threats to open inquiry, while simultaneously convincing centrists of every kind that these threats are not real.<\/p>\n<p>In recent days, I\u2019ve spoken with many journalists covering DeSantis\u2019 appointment of some conservatives to the board of New College of Florida. These journalists, who are clearly liberals, support free speech and unfettered researcher. I was able to fully explain their views during our conversations. \u201cIvory Tower\u201d conception. <\/p>\n<p>They were open to new information and had a great conversation. I outlined the mechanisms of peer review and the obligation to withhold political opinions when it came to, say, evaluating candidates for hiring\/promotion and manuscripts for publication, which I\u2019ve done for two dozen scholarly presses and journals over the years. I mentioned how it would be great to have a Marxist colleague that understood the importance of students having a mentor. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearhistory.com\/2022\/02\/23\/excerpt_the_dumbest_generation_grows_up_818167.html#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">good general education<\/a> Before politics took over, you could see what Marx had to say about it \u201ccommodity fetishism,\u201d I was a strong advocate of arguing over lunch with conservatives like me.<\/p>\n<p>The journalists<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If professors make students work hard and produce excellent work, that should be good enough \u2014 no politics needed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1221,"featured_media":1816862,"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":[13735,13785,4023,4980,5152,6919,11375,15741,3753,15742],"class_list":["post-1816859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-anti-woke","tag-chips","tag-college","tag-desantis","tag-education","tag-federalist","tag-picks","tag-poison","tag-political","tag-trustee"],"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\/1816859","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\/1221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1816859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1816859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1816862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1816859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1816859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1816859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}