Two years after a conservative takeover, what New College lost and gained

This is the second article in a series examining higher education under the Trump administration. Read the first here .

A wave of anger hit Alexandra Levy by the third class in one of her political science courses. As she flipped through the syllabus readings, she began searching the authors online — one after another, after another.

Every reading was from Hillsdale College, a private Christian school, or The Claremont Institute, a conservative think tank.

Wearing a bright pink scarf and a sweater on a “cold” 60-degree November day in Sarasota, Florida, Levy described the class as one of multiple she has encountered at New College where newly-hired conservative professors have shaped what she is taught.

“I just never experienced only showing one opinion or disguising that opinion