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Richard Corcoran has wasted more than $23 million on temporary student housing, but has not built a single new dorm. New College needs another 200+ beds to meet their housing goals, even after accounting for the USF Sarasota-Manatee dorms that the Florida legislature is giving New College. For the same money he spent on temporary housing, he could have instead renovated the 250 beds in the…
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver aired a long segment last night about the political takeover of New College of Florida. Seeing the tragedy of the New College political takeover examined so closely and on such a national scale is, for many alums, both yet hard to relive yet intensely cathartic. Many alums worked behind the scenes to supply information to the HBO show, including members of the…
Richard Corcoran has been president of New College since February 2023, so he’s well into his fourth year – yet the college still has a housing crisis. Students live off campus and in hotels, and the college doesn’t have enough beds to come anywhere close to its goal of 85% of students living on campus . Corcoran has been promising to build new dorms at New College since 2024 – but as of June…
In our last post , we discussed the possible outcomes of the legislative session - so what happened with New College’s budget during the 2026 legislative session? Now that the session is over, we know where things landed – and it’s not great for New College. In the chart below, you can see that New College’s legislative funding for operations dropped from $62 million down to $37 million (source:…
New College’s future remains unclear as legislators head home after a week of the special budget session. The major item that is still undecided: the transfer of the USF Sarasota-Manatee campus to New College of Florida. There are three moving pieces to this: The transfer of the campus, i.e. the physical assets but not any of the programs or staff ( language in HB 5601 ) Debt coming with the…
The front page of the Sunday, December 28, 2025 edition of the New York Times featured that paper’s first major story on New College in two years. We stand in that awkward space between gratitude for the Times’ interest in our alma mater, and dismay that the article serves to badly miseducate the public about the current state of affairs. Our critique comes in two parts. As to what it did report,…
Even a flawed instrument can pick up a very large-scale decline in quality, which is what New College is experiencing. Secondly, no college president in the real world—surely, no actual New College president in recent decades—can, or has, ignored the rankings. Among other reasons, publications that profile and rank colleges are a venue for marketing.
By a vote of its Board taken Nov. 12, 2025, Novo Collegian Alliance, Inc., a private nonprofit organization, has formally recognized Professors Malena Carrasco and Amy Reid for a combined 77 years of service as New College faculty.
The following is the text of the Novo Collegian Alliance’s letter of support for the Novum Collegium Fidelis project. We are hopeful that this idea takes firm root and flourishes, and are pleased to support it as a means to advance the necessary public conversation about the College’s crisis and the fate of its historic mission.
Richard Corcoran is demolishing the mobile-home-like temporary student housing he spent $3 million in taxpayer dollars on, after students were only able to live in them for a total of less than 2 months. As reported early this year , Richard Corcoran made an ill-advised purchase of “modular temporary dorms” for New College’s 2024-2025 school year. The modular dorms, which students mockingly called…
