Sen. Ben Sasse emerged Thursday as the sole finalist of the UF presidential search committee, drawing a range of responses. Many fear a further politicization of a university where the chair of the Board of Trustees is also a top donor to Gov. DeSantis.
Trump on his social media platform, Truth Social, called Sasse a “lightweight senator,” and predicted, “The University of Florida will soon regret their decision to hire him.”
“I focused on the things I thought we needed to focus on: Our fund-raising, our faculty salaries, and a lot of the other programs that were kind of under the radar for Florida State,” Thrasher said. “And I’ve got to give the Legislature credit: They gave us the resources to hire more faculty.
Politico reported that DeSantis’ chief-of-staff, James Uthmeier, helped guide Sasse through the selection process after he’d expressed interest in the UF job. Sasse has written about the need to more closely tie public spending on universities to student outcomes, opposes student-debt bailouts that benefit wealthier Americans, and has called for new models in education that allow students to move from classrooms to jobs and back to school again. Sasse’s selection also may prove another point of separation between DeSantis and Trump, whose support in 2018 helped elevate him to the Governor’s Mansion.
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