New College of Florida Was Progressive. Then Gov. DeSantis Overhauled It.

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3. They want the real estate, I believe

They killed the school. They destroyed its scholastic reputation, wrecked the buildings, dumped books, fired brown, gay and trans employees, denied tenure to qualified professors and literally put down astroturf in place of green space. They made senior students live in hotels to create dorms for jocks recruited for sports programs that had not existed at the school.

They paid Corcoran and his cronies wildly inflated salaries. Just wait. When there’s nothing left to steal, they will close the school and develop the real estate. It was a beautiful campus.