The home town paper's editorial speaks out about New College's "formerly highly regarded" reputation and a plethora of recent problematic news and scandals.

Anyone could have seen this coming from a mile away.

https://www.heraldtribune.com/...ucation/75154875007/

DeSantis dragged down the entire state system's performance and reputation.

One thing that makes me sad is the damage they've done to historic architecture and the campus environment. I can see all of this destruction mapped out in my mind chronologically only because I lived there, Know what came before, and have researched what's been done in terms of destruction and building in the historic district until now.

Some of this destruction started at least a year before I moved there when a grove of trees was cut down for an airport expansion and when I was there, when historic sea walls were destroyed at the behest of the environmental studies department. Iron gates from the '20's were turned into scap, and frontage walls were dismantled, along with other similar destruction.

I guess you could say the writing was on the wall.

The 100 year land lease belonged to a private foundation when I was there. Now it belongs to FSU.

The goal was obviously to triple the number of student, attract wealthy parents, and to make money.

I'll admit, however, that if you had told me a future governor was going to reorganize the College based on an evangelical Christian college, I might not have believed you.

In any case, greed was the cause of the ruination of my alma mater.

I still say however the re-style the seal, it's one my favorite ones (I think it's called a seal).

It's represents the four winds and the Latin surrounding has never changed.

I'm going to buy some merchandise with it.

My degree was written in Latin and I couldn't read it!

I'm going to learn Latin like I said at least as much as possible.

It's a good enough thing it's a dead language. Nobody in Florida (well, not many people who speak a language other than English or might not speak English) speak Spanish.

I'm too old to try Spanish again. New College Spanish was 1 hour a day, not a word of English spoken.

Yeah, I applied for an exception and got it.

I did OK with it in HS but yeah, not very interested in it.

Sometimes people here pretend not to speak English. I find that behavior endearing.

Oh, the new regime did change the seal to read-- New College of Florida.

Imbiciles.

w/ "1960" under it.

It's fine. There are thousands of not millions of prints of the original logo.

Type it in Amazon and you can see.

I have to look at their website again at some point. I remember looking for the page about the UCC and not being able to find it.

They can't change history for all their marketing efforts.

The governor really had damaged the entire state system.

Fact.

https://www.ncf.edu/about/history/

It's official. The deleted the information about the UCC.

This was the UCC's official education arm. We're talking about the extant organization of the actual Pilgrims, no less.

The UCC had always believed in the importance of education. Yeah, they used it for world domination, eg in Hawaii, but however you want to look at it, they were very, very good at education.

The Sarasota philanthropic community knew diddly squat about education.

It was the UCC who gave them the entire template they used to form the new institution.

This isn't controversial. Everyone and their brother knew about it.

The first New College was a private school but because a completely autonomous part of USF when the inflation crisis hit.

This history doesn't fit at all with pretending New College has Hillsdale a Christian fundamentalist school as a model.

I mean the first and glaring problem it's a secular school!

It couldn't be a state school and not be secular according to the separation of Church and State!

These people have lost the plot completely.

To clarify, it had complete academic autonomy when it was part of USF and the Foundation paid 60% of all costs with the remaining 40% being the same cost as all other State schools.

It was a golden age, and when I look back on it now, the unanimous consensus we students had wanting its ties to be severed with USF (version 3.0; it happened, I was in contact with a State senator who later thanked me for or the encouragement I gave him for his vote because he said he had been on the fence) seems foolish and unnecessary. It certainly did have unintended consequences.

I was my good fortune to have the opportunities I had, and in the final analysis, I can only be grateful.

https://youtube.com/shorts/9gI...?si=qalqtvREXejUZmbC

Bizarre reference linking California governor and New College of Florida.

I'm not sure I want to know.