Mariantonia Mejia | Staff Writer Sociology, has become the newest victim of Governor Ron DeSantis’s “war on woke”. With this concerning new move, the future of higher education as a whole is seemingly bleak. On Jan. 17, the State Board of Education ruled to replace “Principles of Sociology” as a core course with a class […]
Samuel Larreal | Contributing Writer Florida International University will now require tenured professors to undergo a performance review process every five years following new state regulations. Post-Tenure Faculty Review, as this new regulation is called, is a threat to academic freedom, Faculty Senate leadership says. “Intended or not,” Faculty Senate Chair Noël Barengo said, “the […]
Will Sanchez | Contributing Writer At the end of spring semester, FIU announced its two newest members to take their seats at FIU’s Board of Trustees: Alan Gonzalez and Francis Hondal. Both are FIU alumni, having earned their master’s in business. Hondal previously served on FIU’s Foundation Board as executive co-chair of marketing and has […]
Conor Moore and Diego Diaz| PantherNOW Staff Despite threatening weather, a couple hundred students, faculty and staff turned out Thursday to denounce potential threats to academic freedom and complacency from FIU’s administration. In the latest community response to the state legislature, members of the FIU community engulfed Primera Casa stairs as part of a walkout […]
Elise Gregg | Editor-in-Chief In the midst of fighting back against potentially drastic restrictions to higher education from Tallahassee, the faculty senate will decide on whether to vote no-confidence in its chair. With a short yet decisive agenda for April 4, the Senate has only two motions from the steering committee to pass: a vote […]
PantherNOW Editorial Board The state of academic freedom in Florida is disheartening. Though we may not be living in Orwell’s Oceania, it’s nonetheless undeniable that the university system is moving in a direction that is undesirable for students and faculty throughout public universities. Over the last few months, we’ve watched the faculty senate rally against […]
Elise Gregg | Editor-in-Chief Faculty Senate is back in session. At the top of a rather crowded agenda on Jan. 17 was something that happened during the senate’s recess: the Cuban Research Institute’s chaotic “Cuban Privilege” panel. Faculty discussed the book signing, which became a panel, focusing on the disarray that preceded it and the […]
Madison Fantozzi/News Director The University’s public opposition of the American Studies Association’s call for an academic boycott of Israel generated much praise from administrators and student organizations alike, but Students for Justice in Palestine says administration does not speak on behalf of all students. “They claim to speak on behalf of the students, but they […]
