It’s all about the Capitol - That will be a relief to UF officials because in the end they - and other universities in the state - count on goodwill from state legislators. Because it’s unlikely the Republican-controlled Florida Legislature will delve too much into any of this in an election-year session that will be dominated by redistricting, budgeting, and culture wars. Hosseini for his part has lashed out at faculty criticism amid the revelations. Ron DeSantis.)įallout? - There will probably be more stories to come in the days and weeks ahead as more details leak out. It keeps coming - The latest stories involve allegations of destroying or delaying Covid-19 research (which is now triggering an investigation) and Mori Hosseini, the chairman of the UF Board of Trustees - and major Republican donor - conferring with the UF president about whether to move classes online (a big no-no, considering the Covid-19 positions of Gov. That doesn’t mean the drip, drip, drip of details about the situation at the University of Florida aren’t damaging or worth paying attention to.Ī trickle and then - What started with revelations that three university professors were told they couldn’t testify against the state in a voting rights case (a decision that as ultimately reversed) - and the swift placement of Health Secretary Joseph Ladapo on the UF medical school faculty - has led to a flood of news stories that have damaged UF’s reputation at a time it is receiving millions of dollars from the state to establish it as one of the top public universities in the nation. School daze - Florida’s university system has been a political sideshow for decades (Just google Jeb Bush, napkin, John Thrasher).
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