Florida Is Turning Higher Education Into Ideological Real Estate
New College’s takeover of USF Sarasota-Manatee shows how culture-war governance is moving from curriculum fights to asset control. The Guardian’s Richard Luscombe reported Sunday from Miami that New College of Florida, reshaped under Ron DeSantis’s conservative higher-education agenda, is set to acquire the University of South Florida’s Sarasota-Manatee campus. The transfer would move a 32-acre,…