In Storming the Ivory Tower: How a Florida College Became Ground Zero in the Struggle to Take Back Our Campuses, Richard Corcoran poses a pivotal (and potentially generational) question: Is higher education in the United States of America at a tipping point?
Across a political career spanning multiple decades, Corcoran served as Sen. Marco Rubio’s chief of staff, speaker of the Florida House of Representatives, and the state’s education commissioner throughout one of the most tumultuous periods in recent political history: the COVID-19 pandemic. But in January 2023, Florida governor Ron DeSantis tasked Corcoran with what many would deem an impossible mission: to bring a failing woke liberal arts college back from the brink.
In his compelling new book, Corcoran continues Florida’s modern tradition of proving its critics wrong by offering a firsthand account of his successful efforts to confront and dismantle entrenched…
