UF Board of Trustees set to meet Tuesday after Sasse resignation
By Garrett Shanley | July 22No details were included in the meeting’s agenda, but the board is expected to name an interim president before Sasse steps down July 31.
Garrett Shanley is a fourth-year journalism major and the Summer 2024 university editor for The Alligator. Outside of the newsroom, you can find him watching Wong Kar-Wai movies and talking to his house plants.
No details were included in the meeting’s agenda, but the board is expected to name an interim president before Sasse steps down July 31.
En una extensa y sentida carta publicada en X el 18 de julio a las 8:22 p.m., Sasse, ex senador republicano de Nebraska, atribuyó su abrupta salida al reciente diagnóstico de epilepsia de su esposa y a los problemas de memoria que acaba de desarrollar.
Danaya Wright had plans and papers to write. After chairing the UF Faculty Senate during Ben Sasse’s tumultuous first year at the university’s helm, she was behind on her duties as a law professor. The sun was low as she drove home from campus, moments before she received the call that changed everything: “Sasse is resigning.”
Sasse, who has led the university since February 2023, announced his resignation in a UF news release Thursday night. He leaves office effective July 31.
Following pressure from its faculty union and a major donor, UF has closed its investigation into whether six College of Liberal Arts and Sciences faculty “interfered” with the curriculum development of the Hamilton Center, the university’s state-mandated civic center which has been fast-tracked to become a college.
After reviewing publicly available information on UF’s business partnerships, investment portfolio and contracts with the U.S. Department of Defense, The Alligator identified UF’s financial ties with Israel and organizations supplying military aid to the nation.
A UF employee who coached a university-affiliated water polo club is no longer working at the university after he was accused of being “overly touchy” and sharing a bed with student athletes.
Trump es ahora el primer expresidente de los EE. UU. en ser condenado por un delito grave. Él hizo historia el 30 de mayo cuando fue declarado culpable por los 34 cargos de delito grave por tratar de influenciar las elecciones de 2016 a tráves de un pago de dinero secreto a la actríz de películas adultas Stormy Daniels, quien alegó que los dos tuvieron sexo.
UF College Democrats President Connor Effrain was in Washington, D.C., roughly 20 minutes walking distance from the U.S. Capitol building when the news broke. The slack face of former President Donald Trump flashed across his phone screen beside the word “guilty.”
The UF Police Department and Gainesville Police Department arrested two men Sunday night in response to reports of gunshots at the intersection of Hull Road and SW 34th Street.