Inside Higher Ed has published what appears to be an attempted hit piece on the University of Florida’s Hamilton Center for Classical and Civic Education, calling into question the center’s political impartiality and spotlighting bad-faith claims that the center is one of several “beachheads for the ideological right” that have been established at public universities over the past decade.
The innuendo-driven article attempts to stir up controversy about the Hamilton Center’s origins. It quotes disaffected liberal professors who make a variety of complaints about the center: that the university already has similar degree programs, that humanities students are less employable, that the professors being hired by the Hamilton Center are conservative, and that the center’s creation was a “railroad job” engineered by right-wing politicians in the state legislature. The piece claims that the Hamilton Center’s founding and recent expansion have been “political by definition” because the center exists “at the behest of the anti-‘woke’ DeSantis and Florida’s Legislature.”
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