New College of Florida

On March 1, 2023, the board voted to “eliminate the diversity statement when hiring faculty and to direct Corcoran to consider adopting a prohibition on diversity training for employees.”

On March 1, 2023, it was also decided that that board will “create a school policy that prohibits spending money on any DEI efforts.” DEI is now defined within the school as “any effort to manipulate or otherwise influence the composition of the faculty or student body with reference to race, sex, color, or ethnicity” and furthermore includes the definition of “any effort to promote as the official position of the administration, the college, or any administrative unit thereof, a particular, widely contested opinion referencing unconscious or implicit bias, cultural appropriation, allyship, transgender ideology, microaggressions, group marginalization, anti-racism, systemic oppression, social justice, intersectionality, neo-pronouns, heteronormativity, disparate impact, gender theory, racial or sexual privilege, or any related formulation of these concepts."

The Office of Research Programs and Services announced that the Mellon Foundation awarded a "five-year, $750,000 grant to New College of Florida to support curricular and research initiatives that preserve local history, integrate social and racial justice work into artistic practice and teaching, and explore questions of special interest to the local community."

On February 2, 2023, it was announced that, “The newly conservative majority on the once progressive New College of Florida board of trustees – most of whom DeSantis recently appointed – voted to oust the current president, Patricia Okker. They also voted to begin debate on whether to abolish the office of diversity, equity and inclusion, and related programs. The final word on diversity, equity and inclusion programs will come at another meeting.”

On March 1, 2023, it was announced that the New College of Florida’s Board of Trustees made a decision and “abolished the office handling diversity, equity and inclusion programs during a contentious and emotional meeting.” It was voted that the school will eliminate the Office of Outreach and Inclusive Excellence.

NCF states that its Art History program "emphasizes a theory and method course that introduces students to a variety of critical frameworks central to art history (including, but not limited to, social history, semiotics, feminist and gender theory, critical race and post-colonial theory, and globalization)."

The New College of Florida has a program known as the “New College Black history program, which also brings local high school students to campus,” where the members discuss issues, literature, and other media.