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Florida approved rules that prohibit diversity, equity and inclusion spending and remove sociology from general education at community and state colleges (eu.gainesville.com)

submitted 9 months ago by tardigrada@beehaw.org to c/usnews@beehaw.org

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The established rules follow Gov. Ron DeSantis’s conservative target on education in the state, where he signed a DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) law last year that dismantles such programs in public colleges and universities while making changes to the post-tenure review process for faculty.

While Florida’s Board of Governors has already introduced similar DEI regulations for institutions in the State University System, the Board of Education’s unanimous vote Wednesday officially implements the rule for the Florida College System — which consists of 28 colleges.

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[–] taanegl@beehaw.org 15 points 9 months ago

The reason one would want to discredit sociology are many, but most of them are made by authoritarians who want to "write history" by removing the academic discipline that studies society, because you're supposed to have society defined by the autocrat.

Maybe Florida should become partly communist, because that's a big red flag.

And yes, that was a trigger for Floridians, because this is stupid