DeSantis has railed against the process by which tenure is awarded and GOP lawmakers have imposed conservative education reforms across the state.

Professors from across the country have long been lured to Florida’s public colleges and universities, with the educators attracted to the research opportunities, student bodies, and the warm weather.

But for a swath of liberal-leaning professors, many of them holding highly coveted tenured positions, they’ve felt increasingly out of place in the Sunshine State. And some of them are pointing to the conservative administration of Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis as the reason for their departures, according to The New York Times.

DeSantis, who was elected to the governorship in 2018 and was easily reelected last fall, has over the course of his tenure worked to put a conservative imprint on a state where moderation was once a driving force in state politics. In recent years, DeSantis has railed against the current process by which tenure is awarded, and with a largely compliant GOP-controlled legislature, he’s imposed conservative education reforms across the state.

  • TechyDad@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    The Red State Brain Drain continues. Professors leaving Florida. OB/GYN doctors leaving Texas.

    Why would you want to work in a place that criminalizes your job?

    • Telorand@reddthat.com
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      7 months ago

      They won’t. They don’t want universities, because that implies more education.

      What I suspect will probably happen is the universities will shrink or close, and/or lose their accreditation, further increasing their brain drain.

      • Zron@lemmy.world
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        7 months ago

        What I don’t understand is why no politician who’s against this has proposed an education act under the guise of national security.

        What republicans are doing with education is very dangerous. Stupid voters are easy to manipulate, which seems to be the goal, but they have to do more than vote for the other 364 days a year. Having a poorly educated population means you have less engineers designing infrastructure, less trades people building that infrastructure, less doctors to treat injured and ill people, and less skilled professionals overall. The US is largely in the economic and geopolitical position that is in due to the manufacturing and research capacity we had after WW2. For decades, the US was where people went if they wanted to be at the bleeding edge of design/research, because we had very good higher education and the skilled manufacturing to bring those designs to life. Attacking education only hastens the decline of that legacy. A few decades like this means the US will no longer be able to make the advanced military equipment used to project power across the world, or US companies not being able to find people who can maintain, improve, and innovate on products without hiring foreign contractors. If Desantis’ attacks become a national thing, they’ll be putting the US on a fast track to rapid decline and economic collapse.

        • chakan2@lemmy.world
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          7 months ago

          You’re right…but the core assumption is the Rs care about our place on the world stage. They don’t.

          Part of the overall plan for the Rs is isolationism. They want to close the boarders and pull out of our trade agreements. Hell, I think Trump wants us out of NATO.

          If we are alone over here on our big ass island, the people will be dumber, desperate, and much easier to brainwash.

          The big picture is dystopian order for the US.

  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    The article keeps saying “conservative” when the correct descriptors would be “fascist”, “bigoted” and “anti-education”.

    the conservative fascist administration of Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis

    worked to put a[n] conservative anti-education imprint on [the] state

    with a largely compliant GOP-controlled legislature, he’s imposed conservative bigoted education reforms across the state.

    • Curiousfur@yiffit.net
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      7 months ago

      The conservative platform is all of those things, so it’s completely fair to call it that. The entire party is rotten to the core because they are simply ok with being the party of all of those things.