Final, 53-page report of AAUP's Special Committee on Florida, on which I had the privilege of serving, is now published. Some themes from our dozens of interviews: "[T]he reality in Florida is 'Orwellian,' and Florida is the 'canary in a coal mine.'.... Being a bystander is no longer an option."
Unfortunate that people didn't raise this kind of alarm over what DEI often ends up doing. We shouldn't want DeSantisism, but it's also uncool when progressives create this kind of atmosphere.
Big universities, particularly R1s, are slow-moving behemoths that usually have enough pockets of resilience to survive all kinds of bad impulses and initiatives, but this leaves me wondering how long it will take to break some of the greatest state universities in the country.