After a hostile takeover by conservatives of Florida’s tiny public honors college, so many students sought to transfer, a Massachusetts college took on 35 this semester alone.
Teen Vogue’s Red Tide series explores what it’s like for young Floridians under Governor Ron DeSantis’s conservative policies. No other 2024 presidential candidate has championed the right’s crusade against young people, especially the marginalized, quite like he has. We travel to Tampa, Tallahassee, and Sarasota — plus western Massachusetts — and speak with more than 20 Floridians who are fighting to make the state equitable and safe for everyone. Libby Harrity does not like the cold.
Another 30 will arrive in the spring, according to Insider Higher Ed. Many more have left New College, while others want to stay and try to preserve campus culture, or they don’t have the option to leave. But the assault on New College’s culture in favor of a more conservative and, to some, more regressive one, isn’t just a Florida problem. “What's happening at New College,” 2023 graduate Madi Markham warns, “is going to happen elsewhere.
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