{"id":37326,"date":"2025-03-29T12:44:46","date_gmt":"2025-03-29T12:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/29\/florida-college-fires-chinese-professor-under-states-countries-of-concern-law\/"},"modified":"2025-03-29T12:44:46","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T12:44:46","slug":"florida-college-fires-chinese-professor-under-states-countries-of-concern-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/29\/florida-college-fires-chinese-professor-under-states-countries-of-concern-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida college fires Chinese professor under state\u2019s \u2018countries of concern\u2019 law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New College of Florida fired Kevin Wang, a professor who sought asylum and is authorized to work in the US<\/p>\n<p>The New College of Florida has fired a Chinese language professor under a state law that restricts Florida\u2019s public universities from hiring individuals they deem to be from \u201ccountries of concern\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Suncoast Searchlight <a href=\"https:\/\/suncoastsearchlight.org\/new-college-fires-chinese-professor-florida-countries-of-concern\/\">reported<\/a> the firing of Kevin Wang, a professor who has sought asylum in the US and is authorized to work in the country. According to the outlet, Wang had been teaching classes in Chinese language and culture for nearly two years when he was fired on 12 March.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/mar\/29\/florida-new-college-fires-chinese-professor\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New College of Florida fired Kevin Wang, a professor who sought asylum and is authorized to work in the US The New College of Florida has fired a Chinese language professor under a state law that restricts Florida\u2019s public universities from hiring individuals they deem to be from \u201ccountries of concern\u201d. On Friday, Suncoast Searchlight &#8230; <a title=\"Florida college fires Chinese professor under state\u2019s \u2018countries of concern\u2019 law\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/29\/florida-college-fires-chinese-professor-under-states-countries-of-concern-law\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Florida college fires Chinese professor under state\u2019s \u2018countries of concern\u2019 law\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}