higher education

High-profile conservatives criticized UF pick Santa Ono for his past embrace of diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI, programs.

Santa Ono has been picked as president of the University of Florida with a five-year contract that includes a $1.5 million base salary.

At University of Michigan, Santa Ono ended diversity, equity and inclusion efforts and removed a pro-Palestinian protest encampment.

They still have to hammer out a budget, but Florida lawmakers finished most of the business of the 2025 legislative session.

Santa Ono, who leads the University of Michigan, is the sole finalist to become president of the University of Florida.

Several Tampa Bay protests are planned for May Day.

The four finalists to become president of Florida A&M University are Marva Johnson, Donald Palm, Rondall Allen and Gerald Hector.

Former Rep. Joel Rudman became the third appointee of Gov. Ron DeSantis to resign this month from a Florida college board of trustees.

Tampa Free Every Center provides support services such as "harm reduction/hygiene care kits/herbal care and first aid station."

A professor said the information Florida is asking for can easily be found online and puts additional stress on universities.

A judge ruled that Jaden Rashada can pursue fraud and conspiracy allegations against defendants including UF football coach Billy Napier.

In 2021 Scott Yenor called working women “more medicated, meddlesome and quarrelsome than women need to be.”