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SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
10/27/2022
U of Florida Faculty Senate Votes No Confidence in Process that Selected Sen. Sasse as President
The vote of the representative body was 67-15. A faculty member of the search committee addressed the senate and denied any pressure to name Sasse.
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SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
10/11/2022
Sasse Visit to U of Florida Dogged by Protests
Sasse was cagey about his thoughts on legislation like Florida's "Stop WOKE" act and suggested he would be vigilant against "indoctrination" in the classroom. Faculty questioned his commitment to tenure and student protesters decried what they saw as a partisan political appointment.
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SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
10/7/2022
Higher Ed Reacts to Ben Sasse's U of Florida Presidential Prospects
Supporters have praised Sasse's vision for transforming higher education institutions, while detractors have questioned whether he is interested in resisting or enabling the politicization of Florida's universities and whether he's familiar enough with high-level research universities.
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SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
10/10/2022
The Attack on Public Higher Ed is Part of Right's War on Independent Expertise
by Brendan Cantwell and Barrett J. Taylor
While culture war flareups get media attention, two education professors argue that the right is going further, attacking the idea that public universities should operate outside of partisan political control.
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SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
9/6/2022
The Academic Freedom Crisis at the University of Florida
An investigation documents the way that academic freedom has been subordinated to the presumed interests of the State of Florida (as aggressively determined by the administration of Governor Ron DeSantis).
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SOURCE: Substack
6/1/2022
DeSantis Planned Sweeping Assault on Autonomy of Public Colleges in Florida
by Jason Garcia
The Governor proposed a sweeping set of higher education oversight reforms that would have consolidated power over public campuses, including the hiring of professors, with boards appointed by the governor.
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SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
4/4/2022
Faculty Committee: U of Florida Fast-Tracked DeSantis Surgeon General Pick Into Faculty Post
The university’s faculty committee cited procedural irregularities in how Florida's Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo gained a tenured position.
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SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
2/8/2022
"I Swore an Oath": Professor's Plea to Testify Against the State of Florida
The University of Florida claimed it was a conflict of interest for Michael McDonald to work as a paid consultant on a voting rights case while on the UF payroll. But he wasn't allowed to take unpaid leave to testify.
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SOURCE: WUFT
2/7/2022
Recent Actions by the University of Florida are Part of a Long History of Collusion Against Faculty
The Johns Committee of the 1950s and 1960s investigated UF faculty on behalf of the Florida legislature. Their brief was to connect communism and the civil rights movement; they ended up engineering the firing of 15 professors for their sexual orientation.
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SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
1/24/2022
Florida Judge (Mostly) Sides with Faculty in UF Speech Dispute
Judge Mark E. Walker compared the university's restriction of faculty testimony as expert witnesses in cases involving voting rights and mask mandates to the recent crackdowns by Hong Kong's pro-Beijing government.
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SOURCE: Tampa Bay Times
12/6/2021
Faculty Report: UF Faculty Felt Outside Pressure to Destroy Data in COVID Research
"Faculty at UF Health expressed concerns over funding being in jeopardy if they did not adopt the state’s stance on pandemic regulations in opinion articles, the report says."
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SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
11/30/3021
‘It Just Felt Wrong’: U. of Florida Faculty Say Political Fears Stalled an Initiative on Race
Faculty in the College of Education contend that University of Florida administrators are holding up the establishment of a concentration for doctoral students in the study of race and ethnicity in education, due to political pressure.
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SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
11/16/2021
U. of Florida Dean Says He Was Directed to Reject Professor’s Request to Testify Against the State
by Emma Pettit
His remarks suggest that the decision to bar professors from testifying against the state may have come from the top of UF.
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SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
11/8/2021
Despite Administration Reversal, Faculty Suit against U of Florida Goes Forward
The professors claim that while the adminstration reversed itself as a matter of discretion, its "unconstituitonal" policy on conflicts of interest remains in place and threatens faculty's First Amendment rights.
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SOURCE: Associated Press
11/5/2021
UF Reverses Course; Profs can Testify in Voting Rights Suit
Attorneys representing the professors said they were still planning to move forward with a lawsuit against the university.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
10/31/2021
Serwer: Florida Silencing Academic Critics of Disenfranchisement Echoes End of Reconstruction
Free speech debates miss a key point: some participants don't want to protect the right to speak as much as the right of the state to use its power to end political arguments. The role of Black Floridians as citizens was once such an argument, and disenfranchisement ended it.
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SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
11/2/2021
Restrictions on Faculty Testimony at UF Included Non-Paid Testimony, COVID Protocol
The University's prior explanation, that faculty are free to serve as witnesses to litigation against the state on a pro-bono basis on their own time, appears to be contradicted by efforts to stop a pediatrics professor from testifying pro bono in favor of school mask mandates.
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SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
11/1/2021
U. of Florida’s Accreditor Will Investigate Denial of Professors’ Voting-Rights Testimony
The University of Florida had told three faculty members that their work as consultants for the plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the state's restrictive new voting laws are "adverse to the university's interests"; will this affect the school's accreditation as a violation of the institution's independence?
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