T hree years ago, amid Republican lawmakers’ burgeoning effort to reform higher education, Florida passed a law that bars courses with “unproven, speculative” content from appearing in ...

“Sociology as a discipline is now social and political advocacy dressed in the regalia of the academy,” Ray Rodrigues, chancellor of the State University System’s Board of Governors, said Thursday.

A picture of Florida International University's main campus on Southwest Eighth Street. Miami Professors at Florida International University are debating whether to pick a fight with the DeSantis ...

Students at Florida’s 12 public universities will no longer be able to fulfill their general education requirements by taking an introductory sociology course. On Thursday, the Florida Board of ...

Florida's Board of Governors has removed introductory sociology from the list of general education course options. The decision follows previous state actions to revise sociology textbooks and remove ...

The Florida Board of Governors voted on Nov. 9 to remove the Principles of Sociology from the list of core courses that the state’s public college students can take to fulfill their general education ...

Officials overseeing Florida’s public universities voted Wednesday to stop offering sociology as a core course, despite strong support for the subject from professors, alumni, students and others. The ...

The top university board in the state of Florida has moved to entirely ban the Introduction from Sociology course from being offered to students as an option of “core” curriculum classes required by ...

This article was updated to describe the difference between the state core and university general education curriculum. The Florida Board of Governors removed sociology as a general education course ...

For an update to this story, go here. In the textbook used by many Florida higher education students for the Introduction to Sociology course last semester, the opening lines on the chapter titled ...