because of DeSantis’ education policies and one in 20 current state college students are planning to transfer.
Florida's Governor Ron DeSantis signs three bills into legislation, including one that bans tax dollars from being used in state colleges for diversity, equity and inclusion programs in a sweeping measure that also places restrictions on classroom discussion of race, at New College of Florida in Sarasota, Florida on May 15, 2023.The Oxford definition of “brain drain” is “the emigration of highly trained or intelligent people from a particular country.”as the 16th largest in the world.
Those decisions were based, in great part, on the message it sent to customers about company commitments to diversity and inclusion. It doesn’t even factor the effects of brain drain. So not only is DeSantis and his lackey legislature giving the finger to both, they’re actively imposing policy that will scuttle the necessary talent pipeline businesses need to thrive.This would be a good opportunity to talk about unintended consequences. But that would assume these consequences are indeed unintended.Florida colleges and universities have been enjoying consistent boosts in college rankings.