{"id":2234338,"date":"2024-05-01T08:22:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-01T12:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/keeping-college-campus-radicals-in-check-is-possible-heres-how-we-did-it-in-florida\/"},"modified":"2024-05-01T08:28:09","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T12:28:09","slug":"keeping-college-campus-radicals-in-check-is-possible-heres-how-we-did-it-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/keeping-college-campus-radicals-in-check-is-possible-heres-how-we-did-it-in-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"Controlling Campus Radicals: Our Success Story from Florida"},"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\">16<\/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%2Fkeeping-college-campus-radicals-in-check-is-possible-heres-how-we-did-it-in-florida%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=2234338&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--><p>The \u200darticle highlights alarming incidents of violence and discrimination on \u200bAmerican campuses, particularly targeting Jewish students. It emphasizes the decline of higher education due to ideological promotion over\u2062 genuine learning. It recounts Florida&#8217;s efforts, led by Gov. Ron DeSantis, to\u200d reform college systems, resulting in positive changes at New College and creating a model of calm and \u2063inclusivity.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-content\">\n<p>The scenes unfolding at America\u2019s most prestigious colleges are horrific. Antisemitic mobs preaching genocide \u2014 at times crossing the line into actual violence \u2014 have rendered campuses unsafe for Jews. Faculty members cheer them on, advocating for full-on pogroms.<\/p>\n<p>Top administrators flounder. Columbia had protesters arrested and suspended, then stood dumbfounded as a larger, more belligerent wave took their place. Unable to guarantee the physical safety of its students, the school moved all classes online. Copycat mobs on campuses across America formed to emulate that \u201csuccess.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2-long d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-991523007\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1379703300879-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-b2ef4598daeb58aadf49cc026314396c fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-b2ef4598daeb58aadf49cc026314396c\"><\/div>\n<p>Most Americans find these scenes shocking, and many <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chemistry-prof-declines-unc-job-offer-citing-schools-refusal-to-give-1619-project-author-tenure\/\" title=\"Chemistry Prof Declines UNC Job Offer Citing School\u2019s Refusal To Give \u20181619 Project\u2019 Author Tenure\">administrators claim<\/a> to be stunned. Yet those of us who\u2019ve been following the disastrous decline of American higher education have been warning for years about the inevitable. America\u2019s academic leaders seem powerless only because they\u2019ve spent decades promoting the ideologies now on such brutal and ugly display.<\/p>\n<p>Years ago, America\u2019s most prestigious academics made a conscious choice to elevate indoctrination over education. Training activists became their highest goal. Radical ideologies that began in Ethnic and Gender Studies swallowed once-proud social science and humanities disciplines.<\/p>\n<p>Their influence surged into administration, as new DEI offices redefined diversity, equity, and inclusion to mean their opposites, then spread their toxin throughout university operations. Wildly generous foreign money \u2014 with Qatar and China in the lead \u2014 anchored this noxious brew in place.<\/p>\n<p>Unwitting parents sent America\u2019s top students into four-year immersive environments saturated with division, hatred, mindless obedience, contempt for dissenting views, and zealotry. Their idiosyncratic notion of social justice, like so many of its morally degenerate predecessors, singled out the Jews for particular opprobrium. For those of us who\u2019ve been watching this corruption unfold, nothing about the current moment seems surprising.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-eb55bdfc853321dd2c3df0b973bb3f9a fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-6\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-eb55bdfc853321dd2c3df0b973bb3f9a\"><\/div>\n<p>Over the past five years, however, the scope of the problem has grown to the point that both the broad American public and our political leaders understand the need for action. President Trump\u2019s executive orders recognizing Jews as a protected class under civil rights law and banning DEI training from the federal workforce laid important groundwork.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Gov. Ron DeSantis positioned Florida\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/5-reasons-making-taxpayers-pay-off-student-loans-is-a-rotten-idea\/\" title=\"5 Reasons Making Taxpayers Pay Off Student Loans Is A Rotten Idea\">public colleges<\/a> at the forefront of the long overdue drive to reform American higher education. He placed New College of Florida, where I am privileged to work, at its vanguard.<\/p>\n<p>New College became the first college to eliminate its DEI office. We took steps to curb a gender studies program that had involved a stunning 40 percent of our faculty. We instituted an athletics program that emphasized teamwork, discipline, character, and community.<\/p>\n<p>Immediate results included record-breaking enrollment, a significant increase in minority students, a male\/female balance closer to parity, and a far <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/woman-abused-as-teen-says-schools-social-emotional-learning-guru-pressed-her-to-drop-charges-because-her-teacher-assailant-was-black\/\" title=\"Teen abuse survivor pressured to drop charges against her black teacher by school's 'social emotional learning' guru.\">healthier campus environment<\/a>. Applications poured in from reform-minded faculty eager to join an institution recommitted to true education. In a year marked by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-woke-policing-the-woke\/\" title=\"The Woke Policing the Woke\">campus riots<\/a> across the country, New College has been a model of calm, civility, and collegiality.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-2b57418eb449a572db86becb93dec328 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-10\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-2b57418eb449a572db86becb93dec328\"><\/div>\n<p>Our Socratic Stage Dialogs have tackled Israel\u2019s war with Hamas and the meaning of academic freedom in an open and respectful forum. Returning students who had eyed both the new reform leadership and the newly arrived athletes warily have discovered that far from finding the ideologues they\u2019d been warned to expect, we\u2019re delivering the genuine diversity of perspectives central to a liberal arts education.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, in response to Harvard alum and donor Bill Ackman\u2019s open letter to the leadership of his alma mater, I declared our campus a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/new-college-is-a-haven-for-harvard-refugees-anti-semitism-free-speech-academia-education-9c0755b8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">haven for Harvard refugees<\/a>. Shortly thereafter, DeSantis offered asylum at Florida\u2019s colleges to students facing religious discrimination on their home campuses \u2014 including waivers to ease their transfer and arrival in the state.<\/p>\n<p>Because Jewish students are currently bearing the brunt of such discrimination, we\u2019re particularly proud of the steps we\u2019ve taken to ensure that they feel safe, welcome, and appreciated at New College.<\/p>\n<p>Next fall, for the first time since the pandemic, we\u2019ll have a Hillel director. A local Chabad rabbi who joined our students for Chanukah programming is eager to offer more instruction. We\u2019re working to accommodate incoming students who\u2019ve requested Kosher food, just as we accommodated the needs of our Muslim students during Ramadan. By next fall, we\u2019re expecting to see a few yarmulkes on campus, and we\u2019re excited about additions to our Judaic Studies faculty.<\/p>\n<p>Our outreach and commitment to these students who are clearly no longer welcome, appreciated, or even safe on far too many prestigious campuses is representative of the broad movement to reform higher education. We\u2019re eager to attract proud, confident young members of America\u2019s many communities. We encourage them to express their identities openly. We invite them to relish every campus interaction as an opportunity to learn and to teach. We challenge them to represent themselves in the most positive light so that anyone who gets to know them will emerge with an elevated impression of the communities to which they belong.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the true meaning of our reform movement. We\u2019re out to build the colorblind melting pot America strived to be during many of its finest years. The process begins with education. New College is training students in critical thinking, civil discourse, the free exchange of ideas, pride and confidence in self, and acceptance and appreciation of others. We call upon all decent Americans of good faith to join us: Send your students where they can become educated in safety rather than indoctrinated through hatred.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-ee11350fca21161ad1e96546091ccb22 fdrlst__b89e9-after-post-content\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-ee11350fca21161ad1e96546091ccb22\"><\/div>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">    \t\t\t\t\t   \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent incidents at elite American universities are alarming. Antisemitic groups inciting violence have created an unsafe environment for Jewish students. Faculty support these actions, while administrations struggle to respond effectively. 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