'To a certain extent, faculty often engaged in self-censorship and chose not to 'rock the boat' for fear of retaliation,' the report said.
The report outlines a school environment in which officials are so wary of upsetting state politicians that they removed certain race-related references from course materials and blocked some professors in a now-reversed decision from testifying in a lawsuit against a DeSantis-backed law.
"To a certain extent, faculty often engaged in self-censorship and chose not to 'rock the boat' for fear of retaliation," the report said. Professors told the committee that websites and syllabi were altered to prevent the words"critical" and"race" from appearing in the same sentence. Some faculty were also asked by administrators to change or put on hold certain curricular proposals, according to the report.
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