DeSantis visits Sarasota, says colleges have become indoctrination centers [View all]

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Gov. Ron DeSantis lauded the work he’s done as governor on Saturday and congratulated New College of Florida President Richard Corcoran on his work in transforming the Sarasota college over the past year and a half.

He argued that universities have become ideological indoctrination centers that lack critical thinking and rigorous education. DeSantis also shared how “leftist and woke ideology” has infected corporate America, the medical field in its response to COVID and gender-affirming care, the “open border ideology” and most recently, encampments that have been hosted at various colleges in protest of the Israel-Hamas conflict.

“How does this all happen?” DeSantis said. “I think the root of it really goes back to the corruption of universities and academia. I think that has been the foundation that has put a lot of the toxicity and ideology out into various arteries in our society.”

DeSantis went on to applaud the transformation of New College, despite the school seeing its lowest retention rate of first-year students in the college’s history and the departure of more than a third of the faculty, the Herald-Tribune reported in October. A newly established athletics department at the college brought in record enrollment through athletic recruiting, but it also led to a decrease in overall grade point averages and test scores. Subsequently, the college dropped 24 spots in the U.S. News and World Report rankings of top liberal arts colleges in the country.

https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/local/2024/06/01/desantis-speaks-at-new-college-warns-of-indoctrination-centers/73941447007/