Will DEI Return to the University of Florida?
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When Ben Sasse unexpectedly resigned as president of the University of Florida last summer, he left behind an institution transformed. He’d dismantled the school’s diversity, equity and inclusion bureaucracy, confronted student radicalism, defended free speech and expanded intellectual diversity among the faculty. Florida was on the fast track to becoming a national model—call it “Reform U.” But on May 4, the board of trustees search committee backed a new president who would take America’s most innovative public university backward.
Originally published: May 16, 2025
Author: Peter W. Wood
Position: President
Institution: National Association of Scholars
Published by: The Wall Street Journal