Opinion by Christine Emba: How alarming are Florida’s higher-ed reforms? Students weigh in.
's opinionsWhen talking with me, some students responded to the changes with mockery, others with fear or sadness. But all felt that their education was being compromised and resented that the legislation would limit their choice of study.
H.B. 999 and Stop WOKE don’t apply to private conversations, yet they are having a distinct chilling effect on them — purposefully so.Several professors I spoke with asked to remain unnamed for fear of retaliation. Most asked to correspond via private email and phone. Paranoia was not unjustified, as professors involved in DEI initiativesH.B. 999’s vagueness adds to its threat.
Stop WOKE and H.B. 999 are also hampering faculty recruitment and spurring professors to seek out survival strategies — switching departments or even looking forStudents worry that their formative experiences at the University of Florida — encountering new ideas, exploring their own identities, developing academic interests — will not be possible for those who come after them.
Her voice broke as she continued. “But I’m so scared for people like me … they won’t get that feeling of liberation, of getting to be who you are and know you’re not alone.”reported that, in response to DeSantis’s policies, 1 in 8 graduating Florida high school students is not planning to attend a public college in the state, and 78 percent of those who still plan to worry that the new policies will have a negative impact on their education.
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