{"id":282462,"date":"2026-05-24T01:14:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T01:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/282462\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T01:14:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T01:14:28","slug":"trump-administration-comments-on-university-of-florida-presidential-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/282462\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump administration comments on University of Florida presidential search"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) &#8211; The Trump administration is wading into the discussion over the search for a new University of Florida president.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In a post on X on Friday, Secretary of Education Linda McMahon wrote, \u201cFlorida has led the fight to get discriminatory DEI out of our schools and universities. UF deserves a president who will continue to drive those reforms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The finalist, Dr. Stuart Bell, most recently served as president of the University of Alabama during a time when the school made efforts to recruit and retain students from diverse backgrounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcjb.com\/2026\/05\/22\/categorially-untrue-uf-responds-sen-rick-scotts-criticism-university-president-search-process\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wcjb.com\/2026\/05\/22\/categorially-untrue-uf-responds-sen-rick-scotts-criticism-university-president-search-process\/\">\u2018Categorially untrue\u2019: UF responds to Sen. Rick Scott\u2019s criticism of university president search process<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcjb.com\/newsletter\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to subscribe to our newsletter.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WCJB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) &#8211; The Trump administration is wading into the discussion over the search for a new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282463,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[120165,28,30,29,73727,120166,120167,120164],"class_list":["post-282462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-dei-florida-universities","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-linda-mcmahon","tag-stuart-bell-alabama","tag-trump-administration-education","tag-university-of-florida-president"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}