From Inside Higher Ed: Students at Florida’s 12 public universities will no longer be able to fulfill their general education requirements by taking an introductory sociology course. ...The Florida Board of Governors unexpectedly voted to remove Introduction to Sociology from institutions’ general education curriculum offerings... “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, said at the board meeting at the University of West Florida in Pensacola. As a discipline, he added, sociology has been “ideologically captured.”
...In 2023, the Florida Legislature passed Senate Bill 266, prohibiting general education courses from including topics that “distort significant historical events,” teach “identity politics” or are “based on theories that systemic racism, sexism, oppression, and privilege are inherent in the institutions of the United States and were created to maintain social, political, and economic inequities.” Then, in January 2024, the Board of Governors voted to remove sociology from the state’s approved core course requirements. One year later, the board removed hundreds of additional courses, including many focused on race and gender, from general education offerings at all state universities...
Full story at https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2026/03/30/florida-deals-another-blow-sociology.
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