‘Far from ideal’: DeSantis’s war on ‘woke’ colleges goes painfully awry

Republican Florida governor's attack on universities suffers twin embarrassments of book dump and spending scandal

It has been a rough month for Ron DeSantis's rightwing rebranding of higher education in Florida. Embarrassments at two high-profile universities where the Republican governor has been waging his culture war against woke" have forced his administration into something of a cleanup.

Sarasota's New College, the once liberal arts school subjected to a hostile takeover" by well-rewarded, ultra-conservative DeSantis allies, was exposed by the city's Herald-Tribune for dumping thousands of library books, including a clear-out of its gender and diversity center.