Interestingly the question here is often put wrong by both sides. The question is whether state executives, as elected representatives of the people, can control the staffing of publicly funded Universities. The natural answer is yes because if not who is in charge?
Leftists wanna argue state has to pay the bill and still gets no input; that the org is self-managing. This is actually true for private land-trust universities. Not this school, though.
New College is the most batshit insane college there is. They make the NYU Frankfurt school look like radical reactionaries.
That's why DeSantis replaced their whole board.
Interestingly the question here is often put wrong by both sides. The question is whether state executives, as elected representatives of the people, can control the staffing of publicly funded Universities. The natural answer is yes because if not who is in charge?
Leftists wanna argue state has to pay the bill and still gets no input; that the org is self-managing. This is actually true for private land-trust universities. Not this school, though.