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A wave of tenured professors leaving their highly coveted positions say the DeSantis administration is the reason they're leaving Florida (www.businessinsider.com)

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Professors from across the country have long been lured to Florida's public colleges and universities, with the educators attracted to the research opportunities, student bodies, and the warm weather.

But for a swath of liberal-leaning professors, many of them holding highly coveted tenured positions, they've felt increasingly out of place in the Sunshine State. And some of them are pointing to the conservative administration of Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis as the reason for their departures, according to The New York Times.

DeSantis, who was elected to the governorship in 2018 and was easily reelected last fall, has over the course of his tenure worked to put a conservative imprint on a state where moderation was once a driving force in state politics. In recent years, DeSantis has railed against the current process by which tenure is awarded, and with a largely compliant GOP-controlled legislature, he's imposed conservative education reforms across the state.

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[-] YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world -4 points 1 year ago

ROI for college football is just that high.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

That is the same justification for excessive CEO pay. It's bullshit in both cases.

[-] ares35@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

until we get the musk vs zuck cage match, there's little by way of spectator entertainment from CEOs though.

[-] BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I mean, this is a material and provable statement. I won't pretend to have data, but it's entirely possible at least that paying a football coach n dollars results in a return of 1.3n dollars.

I don't know if that's true, and it very much could be good ol' fashioned corruption, but it's not inherently implausible, and if it is true, then the choice is either pay for the coach and use the additional revenue to fund other programs, sports and academic, or don't, and have less money available for those other things.

I get that the optics don't exactly look great, but I wouldn't really agree with telling the women's lacrosse team that they're being disbanded because we decided that paying a lot for a football coach was a bad look and now the total sports budget is down.

Again, I'm not saying this is definitively what's happening; I don't have data or anything. But this is a legitimately plausible explanation for it. Of course, like I said, equally plausible is just plain corruption. I'd genuinely be curious in what the evidence says, to the extent that it exists.

[-] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

It's less true than you might think.

https://www.bestcolleges.com/news/analysis/2020/11/20/do-college-sports-make-money/

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/analysis-who-is-winning-in-the-high-revenue-world-of-college-sports

[-] YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I agree, but that is how the business world operates. It's tunnel vision.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Governments are not businesses, nor should they operate like businesses.

[-] YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Any businessmen should have to cut all ties to their businesses before they take office.

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