Ben Sasse promised a conservative overhaul at the University of Florida. But then he resigned, leaving controversy and an embarrassing drop in the U.S. News rankings.
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I've always thought the University of Florida was overrated in its rankings and I still think that even after it's dropped. It's ranked above the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The University of Florida is not a better university than Illinois.
I'm a just retired prof of IT at Georgia Southern and have kept tabs on the research done in the CISE dept of UF's Wertheim College of Engineering. It's very impressive. The work done in the Innovation Center in that college at UF is outstanding.
Should have led with the millions that he & his out-of-state cronies milked from the school—and were uncovered by the university journalists. Didn’t he resign the day after that story broke?
Too late, NYT. While you were writing umpteenth articles about Biden's age & lying about trans people, the student-run Alligator broke this bombshell MONTHS AGO. This "controversy" was Sasse allegedly bilking the school out of millions! That is what conservatives do. Cheat in service of greed.
Sasse was a grifter and incompetent. His emails were word salad and he had no interest in meeting with anyone other than his friends and ext consultants he hired. UF persevered bec of the strength of the faculty and staff. Same group hiring his replacement so taking bets on who could be worse.
In Dec. 2018 Sasse calls for a DOJ investigation into Epstein's "sweetheart deal" in FL.
Trump changes mind days later from making prosecutor who gave Epstein the deal his AG, to appointing Barr who arrests Epstein & he dies.
Then Sasse leaves Congress & is given job-U of FL President.🤔 Connected?
This was a Governor Pudding Fingers inside deal. He is in so over his head but the super majority Republicans enable all his bad behavior. Then he gets sued and defends his illegal acts with public funds.
A "conservative" appointment who resigned after disappointing the Trustees but awarded himself a million dollars a year to remain on the payroll as a professor. This is what too many so-called conservatives do: reward themselves for failing. It's a corrupt good ol' boys' club.
He was an ass, but he also had a real good time spending ridiculous amounts of UFs money. The college run paper, The Alligator, did some digging and what they found was not good for Benny.
The students protested the hell out of Sasse during the interview process, maybe now (UF is currently searching for a new president) they’ll at least consider the students opinions.
Because he'd pretty much drained the coffers of the University and turned into an academic wasteland. In other words, he had accomplished exactly what DeSantis wanted him to do -
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They want to destroy.
Trump changes mind days later from making prosecutor who gave Epstein the deal his AG, to appointing Barr who arrests Epstein & he dies.
Then Sasse leaves Congress & is given job-U of FL President.🤔 Connected?
He was paid a fortune!
Now he can buy a yacht and sail away to the Bahamas.
Million a year as a Uf professor!
Anyone who could get out, did.