Calling all New College of Florida alums: please join me in donating to @NovoAlliance on Giving Tuesday. The NCA is doing great work supporting students, faculty, and staff at New College + raising awareness about threats to its unique educational model.
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fwiw: these books were from a student-curated collection from a student organization and not paid for with public dollars
these weren’t textbooks or assigned literature. this collection lived at Student Life, not in classrooms
DEVELOPING: New College of Florida dumped hundreds of library books this afternoon.
The school also emptied the college’s Gender and Diversity Center, tossing hundreds of their books.
Working to file a story now.
DEVELOPING: New College of Florida is removing trees, plants from the Uplands Bayfront Preserve to build sports fields.
My latest for @HeraldTribune: https://t.co/lXfg3iAZUu
Graduating New College students have completed an academically rigorous degree and deserve to have a graduation that celebrates their achievements on their own terms. Please donate now to support this wonderful event: https://t.co/tLQB4Vqh6x
ICYMI: After conservative overhaul, New College of Florida faces federal civil rights investigation.
My latest exclusive for @USATODAY: https://t.co/xYnoDMxbsA
Admissions staff said Pres. Corcoran instructed them to operate in legal and ethical gray areas and to employ tactics they called "misleading."
NCF is also disproportionately giving merit-based scholarships to student-athletes, who score worse on average.
https://t.co/QPgiSLNTuq
“The average SAT score was 1147, a drop from 1239 the year prior.” This is an 11 percentile point difference, from 84th percentile to 73rd. Not good @NewCollegeofFL . Story by @swalker_7
Well, duh. Pretty bold of the interim president to complain that the faculty were not "considerate" given how they've been treated and could expect to be treated.
"At New College of Florida, a ‘ridiculously high’ number of faculty are gone" https://t.co/QSQ3lz7kRI
Wow, two great articles by @IanJHodgson today about problems at @NewCollegeofFL :
1. “a ‘ridiculously high’ number of faculty are gone” https://t.co/NFhBU9Akh3
2. "New College wrestles with decaying dorms, new students get best rooms” https://t.co/bu1w3SEOd8
New College of Florida is pushing upperclassmen into dorms with mold issues amid an influx of student-athletes.
A must read, and my latest for @HeraldTribune: https://t.co/3GBFu0CTFx