'People are very scared for what's to come, especially kids who aren't graduating any time soon. This is an obvious hostile political act.'
The small public liberal arts college in Sarasota, Florida, offers an environment where LGBTQ students can freely express themselves, she said. But the state’s Gov. Ron DeSantis plans to give this “community of free thinkers” a more conservative direction, saying the college’s mission “has been, I think, more into the DEI, CRT, the gender ideology rather than what a liberal arts education should be,” according to the Sarasota Herald-Tribune.
” DeSantis’ decision to overhaul New College of Florida has particularly drawn ire from LGBTQ activists. David Johns, executive director of the National Black Justice Coalition, said policies that reject diversity and inclusion will only push people away from higher education in Florida. “So much of what the policies are designed to do and the language more specifically … is to tell people that they don’t matter,” he said.
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