New College of Florida may be first to sign Trump's university pledge

[pstokely]

Source: Tampa Bay Times

“We have no affirmative action or DEI, and we have been building a campus where open dialogue and the marketplace of ideas are at the forefront of everything we do,” he said in a statement. “We believe a student’s success comes from their character and their merit, not their race, gender, or sexual orientation, and we would be honored to sign the Trump administration’s compact.”

New College spokesperson Jamie Miller said the university wanted to publicly support Trump’s education priorities. The White House did not specifically invite New College to sign the pledge, he said.

“I think it’s important to support and stand with a national leader, the president of the United States,” he said, “when there are so many people who have stood up against these logical things.”

The University of Florida did not respond to emails asking if they plan to sign the compact. University of South Florida spokesperson Ryan Hughes said USF has not signed the compact.

Read more: https://www.tampabay.com/news/education/2025/10/29/new-college-florida-may-be-first-sign-trumps-university-pledge/

[ananda]

1. I'm surprised they still have students.

That college has been completely ruined.

[CMell]

2. The segregation academy reborn.

Never thought I'd live to see it.

[Tactical Peek]

3. Sad.

Also: bad

[liberalgunwilltravel]

4. We have no affirmative action or DEI

We also don't have a capable faculty or student that would be competitive at any top university. In fact, we're little more than a vocational school to train MAGAts to not think. So we will proudly be extorted. Thank you sir, may I have another?

[jfz9580m]

9. "So we will proudly be extorted"

And it fails to get how extortion works. If you cave, it’s not as if things will get better. It may be hard even if you don’t cave but at least you will have tried to move in the direction of actual sanity.

Whether it is ransomware, trash like nudge theory or any other form of capitulation to soft/hard force/manipulation, caving ensures you are screwed.

Flight/pretending to agree in the face of a gun, if fight is hard, that I get. Hey Galileo or was it Copernicus? I forget which of the two it was-one of them pretended to agree with the religious mafia of their time, but I forget who.

But that’s never for personal gain-that’s to survive and escape from alarming creeps.

Confusion in this chaotic environment though-that does make it harder. Fascists and assholes like chaos for a reason. It’s usually jokey creepy crap, chaos and a slow slide into hardcore assholery.

A sane person bails at the first sign of any of that..

These guys probably think those moronic aliens from the 3-body problem and their drivel about filling the world with illusion (ie tacky low rent crap on social media) is brilliant .

Well they can be that way in their hells. But they needn’t expect to take over all of reality endlessly.

[Tactical Peek]

5. From dust to dust, c'est la vie - WHAT A WASTE!

Alum, second class.

[Timeflyer]

6. So sad--formerly outstanding, high quality liberal arts college invaded and destroyed by MAGA.

DeSantis' big money conservative donors got the Hillsdale South they wanted. FL has been exploited and trashed by these grifters.

[durablend]

7. Sounds like a dump

[Tactical Peek]

8. What. A. Dump.