The Metro: Santa Ono’s political gamble; higher-ed leadership in the Trump era
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Santa Ono stands in front of a University of Michigan sign on Wednesday, July 13, 2022, in Ann Arbor.
Last month, then University of Michigan President Santa Ono announced his resignation from the college after accepting a role leading the University of Florida.
But despite the University of Florida’s Board of Trustees voting unanimously to approve Ono as the school’s 14th president, the Florida Board of Governors — which oversees the state’s universities — voted against it, reversing the decision.
David Jesse, a senior writer at The Chronicle of Higher Education, joined The Metro to discuss this unprecedented reversal and the political motivation behind it.
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