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January 27, 2023
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From: The Chronicle of Higher Education

Subject: Afternoon Update: Is Florida's New College Headed for a Hostile Takeover?

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    Is New College of Florida Headed for a Hostile Takeover?

    By Tom Bartlett January 27, 2023
    A new slate of trustees may mean disruption for the campus — starting with the possible dismissal of the president.
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    Despite controversial plans by Gov. Ron DeSantis to “curb” diversity, equity, and inclusion programs at the state’s public colleges, Ray Rodrigues, chancellor of the State University System’s 12 universities, said that some DEI programs should be preserved. Who will decide which will be kept? “That remains to be seen,” he said. (WLRN, The Chronicle)
  • Data

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    The government’s chief statistician began the formal process to revise the Office of Management and Budget’s statistical standards for collecting and reporting race and ethnicity data across federal agencies, with potentially broad implications for the many types of higher-ed data collected by those agencies. (White House, The Chronicle)
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    A month after a systemwide strike by 48,000 graduate students and other academic workers ended in costly new contracts, the university faces a “financial shock” and is wondering how to pay for them. On the table are cutbacks in graduate-student admissions. (Los Angeles Times, The Chronicle)
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