New College will be run the way voters want

In his guest column last Sunday (“I lead the church that funded New College. This is not our vision of faith”), Rev. John Dorhauer, the president of the United Church of Christ vociferously expressed his discontent with the reorganization of New College under the leadership of Gov. Ron DeSantis. Few Floridians outside of Sarasota until recently knew much about New College, so perhaps a little perspective is warranted.

With some financial help from the left-leaning United Church of Christ, the college was founded during the beginnings of counterculture in 1960. By 1975 the college had been mismanaged to near-insolvency and bankruptcy and was bailed out through acquisition by the University of South Florida. It was subsequently spun off as a freestanding part of the State University System, where I believe it has continued to embrace radical ideology.

Last November Florida voters rose up in strong opposition to liberal education indoctrination and re-affirmed across-the-board conservative Republican leadership of our state and the governance of our schools. Elections have consequences, and one of them is the return of sanity to the way our schools are to be run.

New College now has a board which embraces the values Floridians want. This apparently makes liberal progressives like Rev. Dorhauer very upset. As a Christian conservative, I personally like the way Gov. DeSantis and the Legislature are aggressively moving to re-instill the values for which we overwhelmingly voted. George W. Koehn Winter Park