Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Tuesday he doesn’t want any state college or university students graduating with degrees in worthless subjects such as “zombie studies.”
He was speaking about higher education reform at the State College of Florida in Bradenton.
DeSantis is launching legislative proposals to have Florida state colleges and universities provide “education not indoctrination,” according to material from the governor’s office.
“The first thing that we’re gonna propose is, we want to make sure that everybody that goes through a Florida university has to take certain core course requirements,” the Republican said during the news conference. “That’s really focused on giving them the foundations so that they can think for themselves.
“And the core curriculum must be grounded in actual history, the actual philosophy that has shaped Western civilization.
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“Our institutions will be graduating students, I think, with degrees that are going to be meaningful. We don’t want students to go through at taxpayer expense and graduate with a degree in zombie studies.”
DeSantis also called for the elimination of all higher education bureaucracies promoting “diversity, equity and inclusion” and critical race theory.
“We are also going to eliminate all DEI and CRT bureaucracies in the state of Florida,” he said. “No funding. And that will wither on the vine.”
Already, 28 state colleges in Florida have signed a letter dated Jan. 18 that pledges no more DEI or CRT efforts at their institutions as of Wednesday, Feb. 1.
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The DEI and CRT bans come as DeSantis has been criticized by leftists over his administration’s rejection of an Advanced Placement African-American studies course that it said “lacks educational value and is contrary to Florida law.”
The governor’s higher education reform proposal is designed “to further elevate civil discourse and intellectual freedom in higher education further pushing back against the tactics of liberal elites who suppress free thought in the name of identity politics and indoctrination,” a news release from the governor’s office…
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