Gainesville has seen this movie before, and it didn’t end well the last time.
The University of Florida is again at the center of a brewing institutional crisis, this one centered in part on the school’s decision to name former University of Alabama President Stuart Bell as the sole finalist for the permanent presidency — the third presidential search the flagship university has conducted in four years.
The previous one ended when Santa Ono’s hiring collapsed in public, a spectacle that cost UF credibility and time. The question now is whether Bell survives the scrutiny that is already building around the
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