{"id":70186,"date":"2026-03-27T11:55:37","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T16:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/27\/florida-axes-sociology-as-required-class-at-state-universities-in-latest-attack-on-woke\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T11:55:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T16:55:37","slug":"florida-axes-sociology-as-required-class-at-state-universities-in-latest-attack-on-woke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/27\/florida-axes-sociology-as-required-class-at-state-universities-in-latest-attack-on-woke\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida axes sociology as required class at state universities in latest attack on \u2018woke\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Move by state education officials picked by Republican governor removes the course as a graduation component<\/p>\n<p>Education leaders in Florida have removed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/18\/florida-colleges-push-back-race-gender-restrictions\">sociology<\/a> as a graduation component at state universities in Ron DeSantis\u2019s latest attack on what the Republican governor sees as the \u201cwoke\u201d indoctrination of students.<\/p>\n<p>The move on Thursday by a majority of DeSantis\u2019s hand-picked university board of governors effectively relegates the stand-alone Introduction to Sociology course to a makeweight elective instead of a core component subject that has been a popular choice for generations of students.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/27\/florida-sociology-university-class\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Move by state education officials picked by Republican governor removes the course as a graduation component Education leaders in Florida have removed sociology as a graduation component at state universities in Ron DeSantis\u2019s latest attack on what the Republican governor sees as the \u201cwoke\u201d indoctrination of students. The move on Thursday by a majority of &#8230; <a title=\"Florida axes sociology as required class at state universities in latest attack on \u2018woke\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/27\/florida-axes-sociology-as-required-class-at-state-universities-in-latest-attack-on-woke\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Florida axes sociology as required class at state universities in latest attack on \u2018woke\u2019\">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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70186","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=70186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}