Despite ‘paid tweets’ attack, UF lands higher ed’s most Trump-friendly president
They tried to brand Stuart Bell a DEI activist. But Florida wasn’t buying it. The University of Florida’s Board of Trustees voted unanimously last week to make former University of Alabama President Stuart R. Bell the school’s 14th president, which defied weeks of coordinated online attacks aimed at sinking the candidacy of arguably the closest [...] The post Despite ‘paid tweets’ attack, UF lands higher ed’s most Trump-friendly president appeared first on Yellowhammer News .
They tried to brand Stuart Bell a DEI activist. But Florida wasn’t buying it.
The University of Florida’s Board of Trustees voted unanimously last week to make former University of Alabama President Stuart R. Bell the school’s 14th president, which defied weeks of coordinated online attacks aimed at sinking the candidacy of arguably the closest acquaintance of President Donald Trump in American higher education.
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