{"id":4041,"date":"2023-03-26T20:15:56","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T00:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/thurman\/?p=4041"},"modified":"2023-03-26T20:23:06","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T00:23:06","slug":"coffee-conversation-march-31-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/thurman\/coffee-conversation-march-31-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Coffee &#038; Conversation: March 31, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Topic:<\/strong> Florida\u2019s New Bill and Its Effect on Higher Education<\/p>\n<p><span>For this week&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/thurman\/programs\/coffee-convo\/\">Coffee &amp; Conversation<\/a>, we will discuss a new Florida education bill (HB 999) which would build on Governor Ron DeSantis&#8217; efforts to restrict teaching about race and gender in Florida&#8217;s public universities. This bill would also force other state colleges to shut down diversity programs and remove some majors entirely. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Suggested Reading:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2023\/02\/27\/new-florida-bill-aims-enact-desantiss-higher-ed-reforms\">New Florida bill aims to enact DeSantis&#8217;s higher ed reforms<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wusfnews.wusf.usf.edu\/politics-issues\/2023-03-15\/historians-express-horror-at-floridas-hb-999-they-say-it-threatens-academic-freedom\">Historians express &#8216;horror&#8217; at Florida&#8217;s HB 999. They say it threatens academic freedom<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.highereddive.com\/news\/a-new-florida-bill-would-reshape-public-higher-ed-to-ron-desantis-vision\/643570\/\">A new Florida bill would reshape public higher ed to Ron DeSantis\u2019 vision. What does that look like?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/6258304\/florida-bill-ban-dei-crt-universities\/\">A Florida Education Bill Would Ban Gender Studies and Diversity Programs at Universities. Here&#8217;s What to Know<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Topic: Florida\u2019s New Bill and Its Effect on Higher Education For this week&#8217;s Coffee &amp; Conversation, we will discuss a new Florida education bill (HB 999) which would build on Governor Ron DeSantis&#8217; efforts to restrict teaching about race and gender in Florida&#8217;s public universities. This bill would also force other state colleges to shut [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14745,"featured_media":3896,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/thurman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4041"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/thurman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/thurman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/thurman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14745"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/thurman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4041"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/thurman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4048,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/thurman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4041\/revisions\/4048"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/thurman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/thurman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/thurman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/thurman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}