DeSantis: I'll take accreditation from schools with DEI programs

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DeSantis: I’ll take accreditation from schools with DEI programs
The Florida governor said he’d “totally blow up the accreditation cartel” as president, by stripping schools of their official recognition if they have DEI initiatives.

Oct. 5, 2023, 3:22 PM PDT
By Ja'han Jones

As president, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis says he would strip accreditation from colleges and universities that offer diversity, equity and inclusion programs.

In an interview Wednesday, the faltering Republican presidential candidate told conservative commentator Hugh Hewitt about his plans for higher education. The governor, who has suggested that he might pursue drone strikes against Mexican drug cartels as president, said he would “totally blow up the accreditation cartel” if he wins the White House:

Part of the reason universities operate [the way] they are is because they need to get accredited, and these accreditors are all trying to create the types of universities that we object to as conservatives. So we’re going to have alternative accreditors. It’s going to be, instead of ‘You have to have gender studies or you have to have DEI to get accredited,’ it’ll be the opposite. We’re not going to accredit you if you have DEI and some of these other things.

Allow me, the former president of a college organization that received DEI funding, to tell you what DeSantis’ crusade would look like in practice: Schools that host events promoting cultural diversity — as varied as lectures, concerts, study groups, book clubs, campus safety seminars for frequently targeted groups, along with a seemingly endless array of other events — would be at risk of losing their official recognition as postsecondary institutions if DeSantis becomes president.


The governor also said he wants to remake schools in the image of New College of Florida, a school that he has placed under the control of right-wing ideologues.


https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/desantis-dei-college-accreditation-diversity-rcna119051

[Deuxcents]

1. Wonder how these students like this policy as they're the ones

In the system, not the governor. Will Florida and Texas be demanding morning devotions and head scarves next? Their goal of dismantling public education and teaching with a Christian doctrine is not far away. Imo

[TexasTowelie]

2. I suspect that there will be some alumni that will be very upset about this proposal.

I know that I would be upset if my alma mater lost its accreditation since it affects the value of my degree on the job market and potential income.

Citizens that live in the towns where the targeted universities exist should also be upset since the universities are economic drivers in communities who require the use of other vendors. The ripple effect of the suggested closures shows that DeSantis hasn't given much thought the idea through thoroughly.

[msongs]

3. majority of voters in FL approve of this. democracy is not always nice nt

[sakabatou]

4. And Florida keeps circling the drain

[Skittles]

5. it's like Florida is competing with Texas to see who is the most disgusting

they loves them some white supremacy it would seem

[LiberaBlueDem]

6. Of course you would

Because that is what a dictator would do.

Good thing you will never have that chance, DicSantis.

[usonian]

7. Since these hitler wannabes think that everyone else thinks like they do (narcissist complex)

then as they one by one sink into the ground, I wonder if those ideas will lose some of their appeal, whatever that is. You know, like “The Man Who Would Be King” … a flesh wound spoils the myth.

Since what’s really behind ALL of this is power —- “privilege” of being white —— I just wonder if their loss of power will disillusion people that they can deliver, and weaken the myth itself.

In fact, no one can deliver a fiction like this, because it’s a warped perception of reality, and requires constant propagandizing to stick.

So-called leaders, leading from behind. As they fall, one by one, the illusion fades.

Their “image” is not built on achievement, but by the bashing of others and some acts of violence delivered through policy or through enraged thugs. So far, DeSadist has only shown policy-driven cruelty, and nothing else, though with some perilous effect.

Hitler hid his flaws, but flaws and failures are impossible to hide these days.

Orange Shitler failed to bust up NATO, failed to win re-election, failed to conceal his crimes (talk about sloppy … You can’t leave evidence lying in public view and claim that leprechauns put it there). So, he’s going down, too.

The only able-bodied men who survived the Titanic were the sailors who saved lives by manning lifeboats. The Buddhist saying holds true: What we do to others, we do to ourselves.

[Cha]

8. FREE FASCIST FLORIDA!! That's what

my sister and her family and friends in Florida Say!

MF wants eveyone to be a Fascist white ass mussolini wannabe him.

GD him and his Anti Diversity BULLSHIT.

[hlthe2b]

9. What a hateful SOB.

May the full effect of his much deserved Karma come soon and spare him nothing.

[maxrandb]

10. Ron's spent too much time reading Penthouse Forum

"I swear this had never happened to me before, but one night in college, my girlfriend and her roommate came over to study..."

[Tickle]

11. Most of my family in Florida

love him and they love Florida.

They laugh at progressive States with the way they handle migrants. I love them but it can get challenging at times.