Conservatives Took Over a Progressive College. What Happened Next?
Conservatives Took Over a Progressive College. What he found turned out to be very different.“It’s really not a battlefield of political views,” said Hogsed, who is from Orlando and studies literature and philosophy. He sees “divides in a few different ways,” but “none of them are political.”This college of fewer than 1,000 students has been the subject of countless op-eds and think pieces since DeSantis packed the board overseeing New College with conservative allies in 2023.
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- ▪What he found turned out to be very different.“It’s really not a battlefield of political views,” said Hogsed, who is from Orlando and studies literature and philosophy.
- ▪He sees “divides in a few different ways,” but “none of them are political.”This college of fewer than 1,000 students has been the subject of countless op-eds and think pieces since DeSantis packed the board overseeing New College with cons
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Conservatives Took Over a Progressive College. What Happened Next?A view of the campus of New College of Florida in Sarasota, Florida, on Thursday, January 19, 2023. (Thomas Simonetti for The Washington Post via Getty Images)New College has lots of new professors and students, but campus life feels less like an ideological battlefield than, well, a normal college.By Jonas Du06.11.26 — EducationNo description available.FOLLOW TOPIC --:----:--Upgrade to ListenProduced by ElevenLabs using AI narrationREAD IN APPSARASOTA, Florida — Jones Hogsed knew all about the political firestorm at New College of Florida when he was trying to decide whether to enroll here two years ago.The public liberal-arts school long had a reputation for being far left, with an intellectual culture centered around…
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