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Florida state university leaders voted to reject Santo Ono as president of the University of Florida, following Republican backlash over the former University of Michigan president’s previous ...

By Lori Rozsa The Washington Post,Updated June 4, 2025, 6:06 p.m. The University of Florida campus entrance in Gainesville, Fla. Jeff Greenberg/Photographer: Jeff Greenberg/Uni ...

University of Florida president-elect Santa Ono, attends a meeting of the Florida Board of Governors to vote on Ono becoming Florida’s 14th president at the University of Central Florida’s ...

The University of Florida Board of Trustees had voted unanimously in May to approve Ono as the school's 14th president, and it is unprecedented for the governors to reverse such an action.

Dr. Ono had supporters in Florida. The chair of the university’s board of trustees, Mori Hosseini, who has aimed to move the university in Gainesville, Fla., up in rankings, had supported Dr. Ono.

Santa Ono resigned his job as president of the University of Michigan last month to pursue the Florida job. His rejection comes just one week after the Board of Trustees of the Gainsville Campus ...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (CBS12) — The University of Florida (UF) Board of Trustees picked the man they want to lead the institution going forward. On Tuesday, trustees voted unanimously to select Dr ...

FILE — University of Michigan President Santa Ono speaks during a Board of Regents meeting in Ann Arbor, Mich., Dec. 5, 2024. The University of Florida’s new president will be Ono, a ...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – On Tuesday, the University of Florida’s Board of Trustees unanimously approved the selection of Dr. Santa J. Ono as the school’s next president.

Santa Ono, the president of the University of Michigan, was unanimously approved by Florida’s board despite criticism from conservatives of his past views on diversity programs.

Governor Ron DeSantis pledged during his reelection campaign that Florida would be “where woke goes to die.” DeSantis built his reputation on resisting some of the worst impulses of elite culture: ...