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The rest of a very sad story at New College
Gulf Today
|January 08, 2026
The academic money pit that has become New College of Florida received kid-glove treatment in The New York Times, but it's because nobody checked the maths.
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There's a cost to swapping out curriculum that produced Fulbright scholars for beach volleyball scholarships, and The Times missed it.
It's important to set the record straight on New College, because what happened there has never been about one school. The Sarasota honours college is Gov. Ron DeSantis' prototype for quashing campus speech and dismantling academic inquiry. There’s speculation that it is what Donald Trump plans for Harvard, according to the Tribune News Service.
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