By The News Service of Florida<\/p>\n
The State University System Board of Governors on Thursday removed sociology from the public university general education catalog.<\/p>\n
At a meeting in Pensacola, the board nixed \u201cIntroduction to Sociology\u201d from general education offerings and made the class an elective for the 2026-2027 year.<\/p>\n
The\u00a0move, which wasn\u2019t on the public agenda, was brought up by Chancellor Ray Rodrigues about 40 minutes into the meeting.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe path to preserve academic freedom and preserve compliance with Florida statutes is clear: remove Sociology 1000 and 2000 courses from all general education classifications. Leave these courses as electives, free to compete in the marketplace of ideas and leave them as the majors and the minors for the students who choose to study them,\u201d Rodrigues said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It\u2019s part of the state\u2019s push against diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in Florida\u2019s public university system.<\/p>\n
In 2024, the sociology course was removed from core courses after board members argued it didn\u2019t meet the state\u2019s civics requirements.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you look at the concepts that are discussed in sociology, they\u2019re very theoretical,\u201d said board member and then-state Education Commissioner Manny Diaz at the time. \u201cWhile that field was very scientific, at one point, it has moved away from that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By The News Service of Florida The State University System Board of Governors on Thursday removed sociology from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-210983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}