Gov. Ron DeSantis is determined to ensure that students at Florida’s public colleges and universities are exposed to diverse points of view and can speak freely about them. To this end, Florida law now requires these colleges and universities to survey students and staff members about the degree (or absence) of intellectual freedom and viewpoint diversity on campus.
Under this law, the State Board of Education and the university system’s Board of Governors are required to select or create “objective, nonpartisan, and statistically valid” questionnaires to weigh the “extent to which competing ideas and perspectives are presented” on campuses. The survey will also examine whether students and staff feel to free to express ideas. The questionnaires are to be administered annually.
Naturally, leftist teachers, their union, and some of their students challenged the constitutionality of the new law. The case is now being tried in federal court.
[Expect to see *a lot* of this in Florida in the next two years. The Left will want to derail DeSantis any way they can. — Ed]
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