New College of Florida nets record number of new students, but at academic cost heraldtribune.com/story/news/edu…

New College of Florida may have violated federal law by dangling increased pay to admissions staff for bigger enrollment numbers. chroni.cl/3QgXxlG

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Peace and love, but if you’re gonna report on this you gotta get the full picture. Mold isn’t the only reason New College’s housing situation is in the state that it’s in. In fact, I reported on how the influx of athletes prompted this over a month ago wfla.com/news/sarasota-…

TLDR: New College didn’t just find mold and say “ok let’s send students to hotels” , they recruited more students (thru athletics) than their facilities could handle, gave athletes the best dorms, sent upperclassmen to the Pei dorms despite mold reports finding them uninhabitable

Ok micro-rant over. It just irks me to see stories that are rewritten press releases about topics on my beat that are soooo much deeper than that. I need caffeine.

New College student orientation leaders push back when told to remove Pride, BLM pins heraldtribune.com/story/news/edu…

EXCLUSIVE: A federal complaint filed with the DOJ, DOE alleges discrimination at New College of Florida under BoT, DeSantis-appointed leadership. The complaint calls for a federal investigation into New College’s leadership. My latest for Sarasota Herald-Tribune: heraldtribune.com/story/news/edu…

Richard Corcoran So you are saying that you knew ~30 were leaving, but instead of getting busy hiring new qualified faculty you denied tenure to ones who were staying and created a hostile environment for folks who had no plans to leave...

Note that this investigation is specifically about disability discrimination. So when a certain trustee spouts off about abolishing the DOE, he should clarify that he’s mad about the College being held accountable for discrimination based on disability. Who does that??

Good morning, I’m in Tampa today where interim New College of Florida president Richard Corcoran is set to speak at a Tiger Bay forum at noon. Follow along for updates for Sarasota Herald-Tribune/USA TODAY:

Important note here is that the previous president was on the job less than four years, and had already turned around what the president four years ago had gotten wrong. (See: Red-Flag Scandal.) (Also see: Pandemic, while we're at it.)

Actually, the U.S. News & World Report methodology document states that the Peer Assessment data were collected in the spring and summer of 2023, which means that the last 6 months absolutely could impact this metric, weighted at 20% — next highest category, graduation rate, is 16%

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Outrageous. I was at this ceremony. Nothing the students did merited any conduct violations. There was no organized protest, no attempt to shut down the speaker, nothing beyond the momentary disruptions of a few shouts and one brief, halfhearted chant. ncf.edu/news/commencem…

NCF faculty clarify what actually happened at graduation heraldtribune.com/story/opinion/…

Two sets of causes, two assessments of culpability. But one is reality-based and the other is a fiction. I suggest readers lay the blame where it actually belongs: as with so much else about New College, with Richard Corcoran and his band of pirates.