‘I’m not wanted’: Florida universities hit by brain drain as academics flee

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Guno צְבִי

We fight, We win, Am Yisrael Chai
With the start of the 2023-24 academic year only six weeks away, senior officials at New College of Florida (NCF) made a startling announcement in mid-July: 36 of the small honors college’s approximately 100 full-time teaching positions were vacant. The provost, Bradley Thiessen, described the number of faculty openings as “ridiculously high”, and the disclosure was the latest evidence of a brain drain afflicting colleges and universities throughout the Sunshine state.


https://news.yahoo.com/m-not-wanted-florida-universities-100006384.html
 
"All of the legislation surrounding higher education in Florida is chilling and terrifying,” said Leininger, who is rejoining the biology department at St Mary’s College in Maryland this fall where she had been teaching before moving to central Florida. “Imagine scientists who are studying climate change, imagine an executive branch that denies climate change – they could use these laws to intimidate or dismiss those scientists.”

The new laws have introduced a ban on the funding of diversity, equity and inclusion programs at Florida’s public colleges and universities, withdrawn a right to arbitration formerly guaranteed to faculty members who have been denied tenure or face dismissal, and prohibited the teaching of critical race theory, which contends that inherent racial bias pervades many laws and institutions in western society, among other changes.
 
guno said:
With the start of the 2023-24 academic year only six weeks away, senior officials at New College of Florida (NCF) made a startling announcement in mid-July: 36 of the small honors college’s approximately 100 full-time teaching positions were vacant. The provost, Bradley Thiessen, described the number of faculty openings as “ridiculously high”, and the disclosure was the latest evidence of a brain drain afflicting colleges and universities throughout the Sunshine state.


https://news.yahoo.com/m-not-wanted-florida-universities-100006384.html
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Guano, if you are saying wokies seeking a bachelor's degree in Nigerian unicorn hunting, are guiting education in Florida, that is the best news you could pass on. Thanks for the heads up and the warning to other purple haired idiots out there.
 
The prevailing political climate in Florida has complicated efforts to recruit qualified scholars from outside the state to fill some vacancies. Kenneth Nunn served on a number of appointment committees during the more than 30 years he spent on the faculty of the University of Florida’s law school. He said the task of persuading highly qualified applicants of color to move to Gainesville has never been more difficult under a governor who, earlier this year, prohibited a new advanced placement course in African American studies from being taught in high schools.
 
Lionfish said:
Guano, if you are saying wokies seeking a bachelor's degree in Nigerian unicorn hunting, are guiting education in Florida, that is the best news you could pass on. Thanks for the heads up and the warning to other purple haired idiots out there.
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INDEED!
 
Lionfish said:
Guano, if you are saying wokies seeking a bachelor's degree in Nigerian unicorn hunting, are guiting education in Florida, that is the best news you could pass on. Thanks for the heads up and the warning to other purple haired idiots out there.
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^^^^^^^^

This is what happens with a lack of education
 
guno said:
With the start of the 2023-24 academic year only six weeks away, senior officials at New College of Florida (NCF) made a startling announcement in mid-July: 36 of the small honors college’s approximately 100 full-time teaching positions were vacant. The provost, Bradley Thiessen, described the number of faculty openings as “ridiculously high”, and the disclosure was the latest evidence of a brain drain afflicting colleges and universities throughout the Sunshine state.


https://news.yahoo.com/m-not-wanted-florida-universities-100006384.html
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Giving new meaning to the term "Flori-Duh". :thup:
 
guno said:
^^^^^^^^

This is what happens with a lack of education
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...and this: https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/02/politics/florida-state-guard-desantis/index.html
DeSantis proposes a new civilian military force in Florida that he would control

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guno said:
With the start of the 2023-24 academic year only six weeks away, senior officials at New College of Florida (NCF) made a startling announcement in mid-July: 36 of the small honors college’s approximately 100 full-time teaching positions were vacant. The provost, Bradley Thiessen, described the number of faculty openings as “ridiculously high”, and the disclosure was the latest evidence of a brain drain afflicting colleges and universities throughout the Sunshine state.


https://news.yahoo.com/m-not-wanted-florida-universities-100006384.html
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Sorry, did not see this. Posted the same story from Guardian.

‘I’m not wanted’: Florida universities hit by brain drain as academics flee
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...niversities-colleges-faculty-leaving-desantis
 
They voted for DeSantis.
Nobody is claiming election fraud.
The asshole won, and Floridians did it to themselves.

Would you want to teach there?

Would you send your kid to school there?

True story.

I applied to the University of Miami in early 1964 [admittedly not a state school] and got accepted.

My parents said,

"That was a fun gag, Nifty. Now where in Boston do you want to go to school?"

And so ended my plans for full-time spring break.
They had club pro boxing there in Miami, too--bigger time than in Boston.
Lots of Cubans to fight.

Even though I was a subway token away, they got me an apartment to get my annoying ass out of the house.
But they knew where to find me, and it wasn't much of a trip.
 
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