A wave of tenured professors leaving their highly coveted positions say the DeSantis administration is the reason they're leaving Florida

I’m sure republicans love that since it is their goal to replace them.

There has never been a project in my life that I walked away from that I regretted later doing that.

Here is the delusion: you stick it out, you triumph when you should have failed, you made a difference, and people love you for it.

Here is what really happens: you stick it out until you are broken/fired, you got some wins and took some Ls, you didn't make a difference because the disaster is bigger than you are, and everyone blames you for not being good enough.

Don't mix your success with their failure. Don't be a hero to people who don't want to be rescued. If Florida is making your job hard to do the best thing you can do is head north.

the brain drain is real. the 'red' states are getting dumber and dumber, and as a result, 'redder' and 'redder'.

My brother went to New College. It was a great alternative school where people like my brother, who did not do well in conventional public school, were able to thrive. DeSantis destroyed that. It's criminal.

Good for them. Everyone should bail on that piece of shit. Show future pieces of shit that pieces of shit won’t be tolerated.

The Red State Brain Drain continues. Professors leaving Florida. OB/GYN doctors leaving Texas.

Why would you want to work in a place that criminalizes your job?

with the educators attracted to the research opportunities, student bodies, and the warm weather.

Possibly could have phrased that better, but OK.

Maybe I'm wrong but this isn't good for anyone. Brain drain on the south only bolsters the southern strategy and will hand over the electoral college to the uninformed

The article keeps saying "conservative" when the correct descriptors would be "fascist", "bigoted" and "anti-education".

the conservative fascist administration of Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis

worked to put a[n] conservative anti-education imprint on [the] state

with a largely compliant GOP-controlled legislature, he's imposed conservative bigoted education reforms across the state.

The only University staff that most people care about is whoever is coaching the Gators or the Seminoles.

I get why they're doing it,
But what exactly do they think is going to happen when those highly coveted positions get filled by people complacent or supportive of DeSantis' agenda?

The silver-lining in Florida becoming solid red is that maybe - just maybe - we see an end to the Cuba embargo. But democrats will loose a critical Florida voting block! And? Like having the anti-Cubans on our side will help us take Florida anymore.

Good old Florida. Who needs fancy-pants professors when you've got a gater on a leash?

It's not a bug, it's a feature according to Republicans.

I've got my share of "cases of the corporate Mondays", and it is chock full of its own brand of ghoulery, but I'm so glad I jumped ship from academia. So many of my colleagues are stuck in some awful situations.

Granted, some that tried to jump weren't lucky enough to cross the gap, and are stuck in THAT awful situation.

With the ratio of adjunct to tenured faculty, the state of obtaining tenure, and the increasingly toothless nature of tenure, not to mention these goons doing everything they can to demonize education at all levels that isn't a 5 page child's board story book of Noah's Ark....

He's a scary person.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Professors from across the country have long been lured to Florida's public colleges and universities, with the educators attracted to the research opportunities, student bodies, and the warm weather.

In recent years, DeSantis has railed against the current process by which tenure is awarded, and with a largely compliant GOP-controlled legislature, he's imposed conservative education reforms across the state.

Neil H. Buchanan, an economist and legal scholar who specializes in tax policy, was recruited to the University of Florida College of Law in 2019 in a tenured position, a huge get for the school.

In a recent Justia article, Buchanan wrote that Florida Republicans "have shown in every way possible that they want to get rid of people like me," criticizing their "increasingly open hostility to professors and to higher education."

Sarah Lynne, the chair-elect of the University of Florida's faculty senate, told The Times that while some professors have left the state, politics is generally not the defining reason.

University of Florida law professor Danaya C. Wright told The Times that several job candidates have pulled back their interest in moving to the state.

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The article keeps saying "conservative" when the correct descriptors would be "fascist", "bigoted" and "anti-education".

educators attracted to...student bodies...

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