Higher Education

Palm Court Podcast

Join voices of New College of Florida through the years as we share our stories and reflections on the cultural movement that has emerged from the small, quirky, public liberal arts college in Sarasota, Florida. Dig deeper into the history and meaning of the college that’s been pulled unwittingly into the Culture Wars being fought on US Campuses in these polarized times.


Episode References

Episode 1: New College as a Cultural Movement with Megan Cytron and Grant Balfour

Palmer, M. (n.d.). Doing Data Science at a Liberal Arts College with Aaron Hillegass. Retrieved October 20, 2023, from https://trendingineducation.com/2023/02/doing-data-science-at-a-liberal-arts-college/
Michalson, G. E. (2022, Summer). THE CASE FOR NARRATIVE EVALUATION: PROMOTING LEARNING WITHOUT GRADES Or: “Here’s How You’re Doing.” New College of Florida. https://web.archive.org/web/20061112160140/http://www.ncf.edu/PresidentsOffice/documents/TheCaseforNarrativeEvaluation.htm
Brown, S. (2023, February 4). Inside the “hostile takeover”: an autopsy of the Jan. 31 Board of Trustees meeting. The Catalyst. https://ncfcatalyst.com/inside-the-hostile-takeover-an-autopsy-of-the-jan-31-board-of-trustees-meeting/
Jones, M. (2023, February 9). Ron DeSantis Is Totally Ignorant of Why Florida’s New College Is So Special. The Daily Beast. https://www.thedailybeast.com/ron-desantis-is-totally-ignorant-of-why-floridas-new-college-is-so-special
Friedersdorf, C. (2023, March 30). Ron DeSantis took over a college in Florida. Now what? - The Atlantic. The Atlantic. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/03/new-college-florida-ron-desantis-takeover/673556/

Episode 2: Notes from The Center of the Universe with Steve Waldman

Waldman, S. R. (2023, May 3). We haunt. Interfluidity. https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2023/05/03/we-haunt/index.html