{"id":1825446,"date":"2023-01-26T16:34:40","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T21:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1825446"},"modified":"2023-01-26T16:41:24","modified_gmt":"2023-01-26T21:41:24","slug":"desantis-college-appointees-like-chris-rufo-show-the-battle-for-americas-academies-is-far-from-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-college-appointees-like-chris-rufo-show-the-battle-for-americas-academies-is-far-from-over\/","title":{"rendered":"DeSantis\u2019 College Appointees Like Chris Rufo Show The Battle For America\u2019s Academies Is Far From Over"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><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%2Fdesantis-college-appointees-like-chris-rufo-show-the-battle-for-americas-academies-is-far-from-over%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=1825446&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>SARASOTA, Fla. \u2014 In early January, Florida Gov. 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\">appointed<\/a> A group of conservative activists and academics was elected to the New College of Florida&#8217;s board of trustees in Sarasota. Some of the individuals nominated to the small liberal art school\u2019s board include Chris Rufo, who has led the charge against the proliferation of critical race theory (CRT) and gender ideology in America\u2019s classrooms and boardrooms; renowned constitutional scholar Charles Kesler; and Matthew Spalding, the current dean of Hillsdale College\u2019s Van Andel Graduate School of Government.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after the announcement was made, DeSantis\u2019 chief of staff, James Uthmeier, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2023\/01\/06\/florida-ron-desantis-plan-diversity-equity-inclusion-new-college-of-florida-merit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">indicated<\/a> The new trustees will make it a priority to create a curriculum that is specifically for this purpose. \u201cclassical\u201d education, giving New College further distinction from the rest of the institutions of higher learning that are currently a part of Florida\u2019s state university system. <\/p>\n<p>Rufo spoke with The Federalist and suggested that New College might embrace classical education to combat the bureaucratic materialist bloat which has become a problem in higher education. Colleges exist. \u201cadopted this kind of empty materialist enterprise that has squashed the more significant spiritual and intellectual enterprise of learning,\u201d He said. \u201cAnd I think classical schools are really at the forefront of saying, \u2018we\u2019ve lost our way, let\u2019s look to the past to try and make a more meaningful present.\u2019 Maybe then we\u2019ll actually have something that matters to people.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>New College\u2019s approach to learning would become similar to that of classical schools like Hillsdale College in Michigan. Uthmeier stated earlier in the month that New College would be similar to Hillsdale College in Michigan. \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<\/p>\n<p>Rufo stressed to The Federalist that New College has struggled to keep its doors open while classical schools like Hillsdale have flourished. \u201cThe proof, of course, is that a lot of the small liberal arts colleges are closing down, but the classical schools are getting record enrollment,\u201d He said.<\/p>\n<p>New College has suffered from a lack of progress over the years. Consultants were hired by the school to help. <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1MB5RsMcrJC2vV27LqBYh53IOxe3ykb7Z\/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">indicated<\/a> It functions as an echo chamber. \u201cdruggies\u201d And \u201cweirdos\u201d The ability to thrive \u201cpolitically correct\u201d While religious and conservative students are accepted, they are often excluded. Despite their acceptance <a href=\"https:\/\/issuu.com\/newcol\/docs\/2021-2022_fact_book_for_web_1_\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">rate<\/a> of 74 percent, more than 20 percent of students typically drop out after their first year, and only 53 percent of graduates found employment \u2014 earning a median wage of $32,000 \u2014 or continued their education one year after graduation, according to a fact sheet shared by Rufo\u2019s team. <\/p>\n<p>The school\u2019s dismal performance, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldtribune.com\/story\/news\/education\/2019\/04\/01\/new-college-enrollment-down-as-growth-plan-ramps-up\/5566989007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">inconsistent enrollment<\/a>, and inability to grow an incredibly small student body, plus the mishandling of millions of dollars a year \u2014 resources that are \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yourobserver.com\/news\/2023\/jan\/18\/do-or-die-for-new-college\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">just lit on fire<\/a>\u201d \u2014 while refusing to troubleshoot any of the school\u2019s issues had even prompted the state government to try and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tallahassee.com\/story\/news\/2020\/02\/11\/bill-would-abolish-new-college-make-part-fsu-sarasota\/4722011002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">close it down<\/a> in order to better redistribute its resources<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fixing education has to start sometime, and it has to start somewhere; it looks like that time is now, and that place is Florida.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1185,"featured_media":1825449,"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":[16622,7378,14476,6731,4270,4023,4980,16623],"class_list":["post-1825446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-academies","tag-americas","tag-appointees","tag-battle","tag-chris","tag-college","tag-desantis","tag-rufo"],"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\/1825446","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\/1185"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1825446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1825449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1825446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1825446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1825446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}