JUST IN | The state university system Board of Governors on Wednesday confirmed U.S. Sen. Ben Sasse from Nebraska as the next president of the University of Florida.
During the Board of Governors meeting, Sasse promised to be as politically neutral as possible as the school’s president. He said he will freeze all his political funding accounts and not speak at any candidate rallies or events.
Wednesday’s vote comes after Sasse won approval last week from the university’s Board of Trustees to be the school’s 13th president despite vocal opposition from some faculty and students. Sasse, a Republican, was recommended for the top post by a unanimous vote of the trustees. Opposition to Sasse, who was first elected to the Senate in 2014, has focused on his stance against same-sex marriage and positions on other LGBTQ issues. Some faculty and students question his qualifications to run such a sprawling school with more than 50,000 students. leading to a recent no-confidence vote by the university’s faculty Senate.
“Communities of ideas are built on respect and trust,” Sasse said. “Everybody is created with infinite worth.” Much criticism of Sasse’s choice centered on a new selection process in which all candidates remained anonymous until only the single finalist’s identity was revealed. Mori Hosseini, the trustees’ chairman, said almost none of the most qualified candidates would have pursued the job had the process been public.
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