The late Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan liked to quip that “everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not to their own facts.”

New College of Florida , where I have taught since 2000, has been the subject of a great deal of debate in the media since its Spring 2023 change in leadership, including several highly critical opinion pieces published in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune.

Vigorous public debate is appropriate and beneficial in that it can identify problems and suggest ways to remedy them – but to serve this function, debate needs to be grounded in the facts.

I’m writing to set the record straight and to offer my perspective as a longtime New College of Florida faculty member.

Numbers paint complex picture

Some critics allege that enrollments, retention and graduation rat

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