Save Uplands NCF

03/17/2026

🩵 WE LOVE OUR EDITORS IVETE LUCAS, LEAH MARINO, AND GABE URBANO!! 🩵

Editor appreciation post, what would we do without y’all 🫶🥹🩷

03/06/2026

02/27/2026

Sending solidarity from Florida to those fighting fascism in Minnesota ⬇️

02/24/2026

Be there Wed. 2/25 4:30pm

Registration: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeSVgYNDK1PBQUIx04MVTgG46GM_4nqiPVm-4p_19uqdlRFAA/viewform

From our friends at NCF Freedom ⬇️

"NCF Freedom stands in solidarity with Save USFSM, The Uplands Association, Citizens to Protect the Ringling, and USF students and faculty in our opposition to the proposed transfer of the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee (USFSM) campus to New College of Florida.

"The proposal, included in Governor Ron DeSantis’s proposed state budget, would shut down USF Sarasota-Manatee as soon as July 1 and transfer its land and buildings to New College. We, and many other opposed organizations, believe that the plan would destabilize higher education in the area, undermine community trust, and impose significant financial burdens on Florida taxpayers.

"The transfer would require significant public investment in facilities, operational restructuring, and potential program duplication with no demonstrated need or potential benefit to students, faculty, or stakeholders from either institution or the wider community.

"NCF Freedom has pointed to consistent administrative instability and financial mismanagement at NCF in recent years. These issues raise real concerns about whether the school is prepared to absorb additional assets responsibly. New College would incur about $53 million in debt as a result of the proposed transfer.

"As former USF Sarasota-Manatee campus president Laurey Stryker has pointed out, "[community members] haven’t seen one report, impact analysis, discussion at Board of Trustees or the Board of Governors of why this is an efficient use of state university assets."

The state would do well to demonstrate the value of the proposed plan and consult stakeholders like students, donors, and community members of both institutions in order to gain public support. Instead, the proposal is being rammed through the House, despite the fact that there seems to be little appetite for it in the Florida Senate."

02/07/2025

Sharing this message from our friends at Sabal Trail Resistance - STR also fighting for free speech and environmental justice, and against the oligarchy and their renewal of Manifest Destiny.

09/19/2024

Some good news on fight:
"Georgia officials said they would drop money laundering charges against bail fund organizers accused of misusing funds to support violent protests against a police training center in an Atlanta-area forest..."

City still planning to move ahead with controversial law enforcement training center being built in Atlanta-area forest

09/05/2024

Yesterday's "Our Changing Environment" featuring Steven Sau, former director of Sarasota County's Stormwater Environmental Utility and partner at Progressive Water Resources, is worth a listen on the WSLR 96.5 Community Radio's archives: https://archive.wslr.org/mp3/wslr_240903_090000ourchangingenvironm.mp3

(From l-r cohost Jono Miller, show engineer Alvaro Montealegre, Steven Sau and cohost Julie Morris)

08/31/2024

In response to calls for an investigation by the State University System's Office of Inspector General, Alexander Tzoumas of New College has doubled down on their position that clearing the Uplands Preserve for sports fields preserves its natural beauty and flood control.

08/31/2024

On August 28th, New College Of Florida’s president Richard Corcoran held a Town Hall with alumni. The event was organized by the New College Alumni Association in attempt to present questions to Corcoran about concerns with the many issues related to the operation of the college since he assumed the presidency.

Unsurprisingly, he didn't address his administration's violations in the Uplands.

Read more about it ⤵️

If President Corcoran’s aim was to engage the alumni community with events at New College, last night’s performance did just the opposite

08/27/2024

"The image of hundreds of repudiated books in a dumpster seemed to blend the fascist horror of a 1933 book burning with a 21st century dumpster fire meme."

Op-ed from Jono Miller, a former director of NCF environmental studies program ⬇

New College of Florida's move to secretly dump hundreds of books is the latest fumble by a school that's been drained of administrative expertise.