{"id":307,"date":"2005-04-20T20:18:11","date_gmt":"2005-04-21T00:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=307"},"modified":"2005-04-20T20:18:11","modified_gmt":"2005-04-21T00:18:11","slug":"hb837sb2126-update-florida-legislature-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=307","title":{"rendered":"HB837\/SB2126 update (Florida legislature)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the Baxley\/Horowitz bill is effectively dead in the state legislature (though the House may pass it in a symbolic move late in the session), Baxley will try the Colorado gambit: asking university presidents to recreate the bill&#8217;s provisions in administrative form. I am less convinced of any immediate threat, since the university-system faculty have union contracts that protect academic freedom, than of the possibility that this is a first act in a long-term strategy.  Since this maneuver is similar to Colorado&#8217;s resolution of the Horowitz bill last year in that state, I&#8217;m wondering if there&#8217;s further coordination.  There need not be, since it&#8217;s fairly common for administrators to lobby legislators and make various promises about behavior and priorities in return for appropriations. But there&#8217;s also been some quick work in the United Faculty of Florida to ask for e-mails before tomorrow&#8217;s meeting between bill sponsor Rep. Dennis Baxley and the state university presidents.  Personally, I suspect university presidents already are expert at demurring, but reinforcing the clear faculty opposition to anything like Baxley\/Horowitz can&#8217;t hurt.<br \/>\nSources: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldtribune.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20050420\/NEWS\/504200361\/1006\/SPORTS\">Sarasota Herald-Tribune<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bradenton.com\/mld\/bradenton\/11437577.htm\">Tallahassee Democrat<\/a>, the student-run <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alligator.org\/pt2\/050419baxstaff.php\">Florida Alligator<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/news\/opinion\/orl-edpmyword20042005apr20,1,56479.story?coll=orl-opinion-headlines&#038;ctrack=1&#038;cset=true \">Orlando Sentinel<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gainesville.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20050420\/LOCAL\/50420009\/1078\/news\">Gainesville Sun<\/a>, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocala.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20050420\/NEWS\/50419012&#038;SearchID=73205676856505\">Ocala Star-Banner<\/a>.  (Thanks go to United Faculty of Florida staff for collecting these clippings and distributing them to elected union officers.)<br \/>\nIn the next few days, I&#8217;ll try to carve out time for a few notes about Cary Nelson and Stephen Watt&#8217;s <cite>Office Hours:  Activism and Change in the Academy<\/cite> (Routledge, 2004)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the Baxley\/Horowitz bill is effectively dead in the state legislature (though the House may pass it in a symbolic move late in the session), Baxley will try the Colorado gambit: asking university presidents to recreate the bill&#8217;s provisions in administrative form. I am less convinced of any immediate threat, since the university-system faculty have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-freedom"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-4X","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}