Robert Allen—a New College grad with longtime ties to the GOP—has been working behind the scenes to help reshape the Florida liberal arts college into an ultra-conservative institution.
A Miami superyacht lawyer and New College of Florida alumnus has claimed he was the one to light the flame that ended in theThe tiny college of 650-some students in Sarasota, Florida, recently found itself at the center of the nation’s culture wars in the runup to the 2024 presidential election astook aim at the school and what he sees as the woke politics of higher education.
Multiple alumni said that during Allen’s campaign of prolific Facebook posts and hours-long conversations, he claimed to have helped orchestrate the takeover in order to save the school from ruin. Instead, he said, he was trying to save the school: “It had no future, so I tried to give it a future,” he said. “And the way that I tried to give it a future was by suggesting that we should fill the vacancies.”
Allen told The Daily Beast that he took issue with what he perceived as a lack of Republican professors at the college, and that both test scores and standards for admission were low., New College of Florida is the fifth best public liberal arts school in the country. Multiple alumni pushed back on Allen’s apparent gripes and stressed that New College is academically rigorous and well known for its high rate of Fulbright scholars.
The powerful Florida governor has long been taking aim at Florida’s K-12 education system—supporting new laws such as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill and the “Stay W.O.K.E. Act,” which have hamstrung teachers’ abilities to talk about subjects like race and gender.
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