Progress at New College of Florida? Let's dig into the numbers
In New College President Richard Corcoran’s 2024 book, “Storming the Ivory Tower,” he argues that the January 2023 New College reformation boiled down to “simple data.”
It’s now been three years, so let’s review some of the simple data that this reformation has produced.
The administration likes to boast of a surge in students. As of today, the college has 821 undergraduates — far from the “over 900” it has claimed. For the 10 years preceding the pandemic, 821 students would place the current student count right in the middle (and comfortably below the multiple years it exceeded 850 students).
Of those 821 students, 556 are “first-time-in-college,” the most important component of a healthy college. The other 265 students are all transfer students. Of the first-timers, 112 are freshmen. The last time New College had 556 (or fewer) undergraduate first timers was in 2004. And since its independence in 2001, New College has never had as few as 112 freshmen.
Of the current 821 students, 90 are baseball players, and 63 are on probation. (Not to mention that the college currently has students academically disqualified by National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics rules, yet not on academic probation.)
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