From Salon and it tops a lot of cakes. DeSantis signed a bill mandating which way a professor or student’s political pendulum swings. He has his Election Police now, so there is a lot of fascism going on here. Why even bother with a curtain when you vote. Yell out….. I am voting for so and so.
This is absolutely nuts.
Per Salon:
Public universities in Florida will be required to survey both faculty and students on their political beliefs and viewpoints, with the institutions at risk of losing their funding if the responses are not satisfactory to the state's Republican-led legislature.
The unprecedented project, which was tucked into a law signed Tuesday by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, is part of a long-running, nationwide right-wing push to promote "intellectual diversity" on campuses — though worries over a lack of details on the survey's privacy protections, and questions over what the results may ultimately be used for, hover over the venture.
Based on the bill's language, survey responses will not necessarily be anonymous — sparking worries among many professors and other university staff that they may be targeted, held back in their careers or even fired for their beliefs
WOW ! Freedom my ass. I thought your vote was supposed to be your own business and not the state’s. It is for sure a fundraising ploy for the right wing but we will lose teachers AND students not enrolling in colleges. No way is this constitutional.
I just re read when this came down and it was June 2021 BUT I do not understand why most of we Floridians are hearing about this now. 140 bills went into law July 1 2022 so we have to dig to find out what we have lost. This was last year but it is still orwellian.
Written in April 2022…..www.chronicle.com/…
After a federal judge denied an emergency request to stop an intellectual-diversity survey from being given at public colleges in Florida, a union representing faculty called for instructors, staff, and students to simply ignore it.
Last year, Florida’s Republican Legislature passed a bill requiring all public colleges to distribute an annual survey of political beliefs in order to “asses the status of intellectual and viewpoint diversity” on campuses across the state. The measure was motivated, in part, by conservative beliefs that institutions of higher education favor a liberal ideology. “It used to be thought that a university campus was a place where you’d be exposed to a lot of different ideas,” said Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, at a news conference where he signed the bill into law.
( The rest is behind a pay wall)..
This is the actual survey and it claims it is voluntary. I don’t know because some schools have lost or been threatned on funding. DeSantis finds ways to take away from our educational system.
The Survey