How Ron DeSantis politicized Florida’s higher education by placing his loyalists at the top
DeSantis’s two terms were marked at regular intervals with unprecedented attacks on the established order. Photograph: Douglas R Clifford/Tampa Bay Times/ZUMA Press Wire/ShutterstockView image in fullscreenDeSantis’s two terms were marked at regular intervals with unprecedented attacks on the established order. Rick Scott [DeSantis’s predecessor] did something similar, but the difference is the scale and the explicit ideological goals behind it.“It’s been this gigantic sea change on how higher ed is run.
- ▪DeSantis’s two terms were marked at regular intervals with unprecedented attacks on the established order.
- ▪Photograph: Douglas R Clifford/Tampa Bay Times/ZUMA Press Wire/ShutterstockView image in fullscreenDeSantis’s two terms were marked at regular intervals with unprecedented attacks on the established order.
- ▪Rick Scott [DeSantis’s predecessor] did something similar, but the difference is the scale and the explicit ideological goals behind it.“It’s been this gigantic sea change on how higher ed is run.
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DeSantis’s two terms were marked at regular intervals with unprecedented attacks on the established order. Photograph: Douglas R Clifford/Tampa Bay Times/ZUMA Press Wire/ShutterstockView image in fullscreenDeSantis’s two terms were marked at regular intervals with unprecedented attacks on the established order. Photograph: Douglas R Clifford/Tampa Bay Times/ZUMA Press Wire/ShutterstockFloridaAnalysisHow Ron DeSantis politicized Florida’s higher education by placing his loyalists at the topRichard Luscombe in MiamiTerm-limited, hard-right governor instituted an ideological infiltration of universities by placing allies in powerful postsFri 11 Sep 2026 08.00 EDTLast modified on Fri 11 Sep 2026 08.01 EDTShareIn fewer than four months’ time, Ron DeSantis, Florida’s hard-right governor, will…
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