Don't worry about indoctrinating college students. It's not possible. • Florida Phoenix New College of Florida is on its intellectual deathbed. Once an authority-challenging, free-thinking institution for students passionate about learning, a place where difference was celebrated and cre...

Don’t worry about indoctrinating college students. It’s not possible. floridaphoenix.com/2025/11/17/d...

In the past two and a half years, the number of “executive” administrators making 200k or more at New College has gone from 1 to more than 10.

Corcoran’s building his ideal public liberal arts college: no professors, only vice-presidents.

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New College has a student retention problem More than two years after the takeover by the governor, New College of Florida for the first time recognized it has a retention problem. At a special board meeting, the new provost presented to the tr...

This WSLR radio report notes that, according to a report submitted to the New College of Florida Board of Trustees, the graduation rate is down to 40%. This accountability report will be forwarded to the Board of Governors.

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America is not a Christian nation.

America is a nation where the rich and powerful have reduced Christianity to just another tool to exploit for their own interests at the expense of the very people Jesus called us to serve: the poor, the hungry, the sick, the stranger, and the oppressed.

Columbia staff receive texts asking if they're Jewish, as government hunts antisemitic harassment on campus Barnard employees received the text as Columbia University students plan a new tent encampment to protest the Israel-Hamas war.

I really wish reporters would stop saying that there is an effort by the Trump administration to combat antisemitism. It is quite the opposite. There is an effort to foment antisemitism.
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Education Department’s Anti-DEI Guidance Blocked Several colleges scrubbed their campuses and websites of DEI-related language and shuttered offices in order to comply with the letter's sweeping demands.

One of the reasons you cannot and should not react to the wild swings of the Trump administration against higher education is because most of those swings will ultimately miss, case in point, that Dear Colleague letter targeting "DEI." www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

‘Can it even be stopped?’: Concerns grow over rumored USF Sarasota-Manatee takeover There are concerns among some in Bradenton that New College of Florida might be taking over USF Sarasota-Manatee.

"Can it be stopped?"
Nope. Why would you even want to stop our growth? If our footprints doubles in size, we could pay Richard Corcoran TWO million dollars in salary!

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In case you hadn't noticed:

Piccolo's persistent penis stalks women and storms Richard Corcoran's ivory tower: a timeline and questions Piccolo had a publicly known penis problem when Corcoran hired his friend and longtime personal troll. The *fifth* penis-related public legal incident finally did him in.

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How many Sarasota "leaders" conspired to protect Piccolo from his persistent and dangerous penis? Sheriff Kurt Hoffman, 12th Circuit SA Ed Brodsky, and Sarasota Bradenton Airport CEO Rick Piccolo *should have* protected citizens from Piccolo and taxpayers from Corcoran. Why didn't they?

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‘We Have More Athletes Than We Have Fans’ Many small colleges have invested in sports to boost enrollment. What happens when it doesn’t work?

The problem for Lourdes University, and many other small, private colleges, is that athletics has done little or nothing to attract students who don’t play sports. chroni.cl/3XXX4YI

Meme of young Asian man holding out his hand to a butterfly flying in front of him. In black text under the butterfly are the words “is this ‘merit’”

The arrested guy has worked for NCF President Richard "Coco" Corcoran on and off for a decade. You could say he was Coco's "right hand man."

One need look no further than FL Gov Ron DeSantis's MAGA restructuring of New College Florida or Project 2025 to understand what's behind Trump's assault on America's world class colleges & universities

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The face of the Chris Rufo/Ron DeSantis model of higher education at New College. They forced real professionals and educators out to replace them with this.

Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

The work matters, perhaps even more critically, on the inside of those institutions taken hostage.

New College fires Chinese professor under controversial Florida ‘countries of concern’ law - Suncoast Searchlight A New College of Florida professor was abruptly fired this month under a controversial state law that limits public universities from employing people from so-called “countries of concern,” including ...

We're New College of Florida.
We'll fire you if we don't like what country you're from
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I think there’s probably power in being up against people who simply can’t conceive of anyone caring enough to act without being bribed to do so. It means that they cannot imagine, or thereby prepare themselves for, a driven opposition.

Opinion | DEI is misguided because merit must always be more important than diversity. Here's why colleges must commit to hiring more conservatives.

It will never be enough. The goal is to break the University, not have them meet demands.

Taunting Columbia with the hope of compliance just sweetens the pot with humiliation.

The Trump administration cancels $400 million in grants and contracts to Columbia University.

They adopted a posture of total submission and it bought them precisely nothing. A lesson for the Trump era www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...

If the Great Resegregation proves successful, it will restore an America past where racial and ethnic minorities were the occasional token presence in an otherwise white-dominated landscape. It would repeal the gains of the civil-rights era in their entirety. What its advocates want is not a restoration of explicit Jim Crow segregation—that would shatter the illusion that their own achievements are based in a color-blind meritocracy. They want an arrangement that perpetuates racial inequality indefinitely while retaining some plausible deniability, a rigged system that maintains a mirage of equal opportunity while maintaining an unofficial racial hierarchy. Like elections in authoritarian countries where the autocrat is always reelected in a landslide, they want a system in which they never risk losing but can still pretend they won fairly.

The attacks on DEI are a pretext for a much more radical agenda of reversing the gains of the civil rights movement, an objective the Trump administration is pursuing with zeal. A Great Resegregation. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Opinion | As a conservative academic, I had to vote for Trump because wokeism has destroyed the integrity of American academia. Here’s why the Department of Education should be led by a pro wrestling executive.

“We’ve Been Essentially Muzzled”: Department of Education Halts Thousands of Civil Rights Investigations Under Trump Since Inauguration Day, the Office for Civil Rights has only opened about 20 investigations focused on Trump’s priorities, placing more than 10,000 student complaints related to disability access and ...

NEW: Under the Trump administration, the Office for Civil Rights has shifted its focus to removing gender-neutral bathrooms, banning transgender athletes from women’s sports and prioritizing complaints alleging discrimination against white students.

“We’ve Been Essentially Muzzled”: Department of Education Halts Thousands of Civil Rights Investigations Under Trump Since Inauguration Day, the Office for Civil Rights has only opened about 20 investigations focused on Trump’s priorities, placing more than 10,000 student complaints related to disability access and ...

Thousands of civil rights investigations at schools and colleges have ground to a halt under Donald Trump.

Very few new investigations have been opened.

There are students who need help now, one OCR employee told us. “And now the federal government is literally doing nothing.”

Under fascism, no one is safe.

Universities stayed quiet as the admin targeted DEI & foreign aid, censored research, etc.

Now, they face devastating cuts to indirect cost rates, threatening research & operations.

Silence won’t protect institutions. It won’t protect people; it never does.