This Florida college's attack on gender studies is just the tip of an ignorant iceberg

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This Florida college's attack on gender studies is just the tip of an ignorant iceberg

Earlier this month, the New College of Florida board of trustees — six of whom were appointed this year by Gov. Ron DeSantis — voted to abolish its gender studies major as their latest effort in “reforming” the college. Earlier this year, the board successfully ousted the school’s leadership, including its president and provost, and abolished its diversity, equity and inclusion office and programming.

Noted critical race theory crusader and New College of Florida trustee Chris Rufo boasted of these developments in a recent Substack blog, which he described as part of the college’s mission “to restore classical liberal education and to revive the pursuit of transcendent truth — a mission ultimately incompatible with the disciplines of gender studies and queer theory, which are explicitly opposed to the classical conceptions of the true, the good, and the beautiful.”

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