With Eric Walker ‘75

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What does the hostile takeover of New College in Sarasota, FL tell us about the future of public liberal arts education in an America awash with Florida politics? Eric Walker ’75 will spotlight this and several high-profile crises of late in Florida public higher education, including the battle over the presidential stakes at UF (the Ben Sasse controversy), system-mandated curricular reforms targeting DEI, boards of trustees newly active in faculty hiring and tenure and the precarious status of faculty unions on all these fronts. As an emeritus professor of English, former president of the Faculty Senate at Florida State University, member of the FSU Board of Trustees, and member of the statewide Florida Council of Faculty Senate presidents Eric has a strong interest in keeping a close eye on these matters during his retirement.