"The New College of Florida in Sarasota is one of only two public liberal arts colleges in the state-the other, Hodges University in Fort Myers, recently announced that it would permanently close. In January, DeSantis appointed six conservative members to New College's board of trustees; that board fired the college's president and installed a Republican politician in her place. The board then swiftly dissolved the college's diversity office, abolished its gender studies programme, fired a lesbian librarian who was deemed a 'troublemaker' and denied tenure to five professors set to receive it. By July, more than a third of the faculty had left. Many students have since transferred to other schools. Some professors and students are now suing the school."
"The murals elevated and celebrated the students' diversity, cultural heritage, college experiences and LGBTQ+ communities on campus," Anderson says, adding that these efforts had occurred "before the o
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