UF professors are taking legal action against Gov. Ron DeSantis and other education officials over the state’s “Stop WOKE Act” law and other DEI restrictions

Professors at Florida International University, the University of Florida and Florida State University are plaintiffs in the new lawsuit.

Six faculty members argue that a 2023 law mandating that general-education courses not teach “identity politics” violates their First Amendment rights.

Gov. Ron DeSantis defended his appointment to the University of West Florida (UWF) Board of Trustees of a political scientist who claims that encouraging women to prioritize their careers has led to the decline of family life.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has appointed five new members to the board overseeing the University of West Florida in Pensacola, including two people affiliated with The Heritage Foundation.

For years, political scientist Scott Yenor has advocated for overhauling colleges and universities, which he has argued undermine traditional American families by encouraging women to pursue careers and put off childbirth.

Gov. Ron DeSantis appointed five members to the University of West Florida’s board of trustees Monday, adding two controversial higher-ed reformers to the body that oversees the Pensacola public university.

Scott Yenor has zeroed in on the real problem of higher education: That it is populated by too many women who should be off making babies.

For the better part of a decade, Dewhirst skipped around the U.S. and across the pond for high-ranking public and advocacy jobs. In May 2023, he left his then-post as Chief Deputy Attorney General of Idaho to work as a senior adviser to DeSantis.

Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday named state Attorney General Ashley Moody to the US Senate, choosing a staunch ally to fill the seat set to be vacated by Marco Rubio, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of state.

Ron DeSantis, for feeling our pain ... for fighting “cancerous DEI programs” in public universities. “Florida’s university system was beginning to rot from DEI sickness.