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College and university professors are unhappy with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ attempt to hold professors accountable by requiring a five-year review of full-time professors.
DeSantis signed the bill Tuesday, which he said aims to hold teachers accountable and evaluate their performance, according to WPTV.
“We need to make sure that the faculty is responsible and that they will not have a mandate forever without having any way to hold them accountable or evaluate what they are doing,” DeSantis said.
Every five years, according to the new law, full-time lecturers will be reviewed by the Institute’s Board of Trustees.
DeSantis called it “the most significant reform of the mandate”, adding that teachers already hired can be assessed on the basis of performance.
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis spoke at a news conference at the aviation hangar of Eau Gallie High School. (Paul Hennessy / SOPA Images / LightRocket / Getty Images)
“The hire was there to protect people so they could come up with ideas that might make them lose their jobs or whatever – academic freedom,” DeSantis said. “Now you’re going to be in a situation where, well, if productivity isn’t there, if you’re not adding anything, then you can go different ways.”
Taylor Walker, a student at Florida State University, told a news conference that full-time faculty should be held accountable.
“If we pay an institution to guide me and expand my consciousness, should we not be able to hold that institution accountable?” Walker said.
The law will take effect on July 1, and some professors have expressed dislike for it.
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Entrance sign at the University of Florida on September 12, 2016 in Gainesville, Florida. (iStock)
Emilio Bruna, a professor of tropical ecology and Latin American studies at the University of Florida, tweeted that he was considering leaving the state as a result of the new law.
“I never really thought about working anywhere else. To this day. And only because of the decisions taken by the governor and the legislature. “I guess I’m not alone, which means the future of Florida’s public universities – and hence the state itself – may be bleak,” Bruna tweeted.
Another professor at the University of Florida, Megan McVeigh, tweeted that the state would suffer negatively as a result of the new law.
“If Florida gets involved in the mandate, it seems obvious that they will lose when hiring and retaining the best teachers, and that will be down,” McVeigh wrote on Twitter.
Florida State University Campus in Tallahassee, Florida (iStock / iStock)
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The legislation also drew the attention of other professors across the country, such as Ryan McNeill, an assistant professor of medicine at Yale University, tweeted that DeSantis was “h-l-prone to destroy [universities]”
“It’s naive or discouraging for Florida university leaders to say that DeSantis is stepping down because he doesn’t understand how universities work,” McNeill wrote on Twitter.
The American Association of University Professors also challenged the new law, saying it continued a “ruthless crusade to destroy higher education in Florida.”
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