{"id":381241,"date":"2026-08-26T02:16:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T02:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/381241\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T02:16:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T02:16:11","slug":"torey-alston-out-as-broward-college-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/381241\/","title":{"rendered":"Torey Alston out as Broward College president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0August 25, 2026 at 5:34 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Updated:\u00a0August 25, 2026 at 5:45 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. \u2014 Broward College reached a settlement with President Torey Alston, ending his tenure effective Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/08\/25\/sale-torey-alston-de-la-presidencia-de-broward-college\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/08\/25\/sale-torey-alston-de-la-presidencia-de-broward-college\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Broward College Board of Trustees has named Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Rabia Azhar as acting president.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Alston has previously served as a Broward County commissioner and School Board member; in both cases, he was appointed to those offices by Gov. Ron DeSantis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He has also previously led the Greater Miami Expressway Agency and was on the Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University Board of Trustees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Local 10 News is working to find out what led to the change.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Calvin Hughes\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/b1e42b25-58dc-410e-84.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Calvin Hughes<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Nine-time Emmy Award-winning newscaster Calvin Hughes co-anchors WPLG-Local 10\u2019s 4, 5, 6, 9 and 11 p.m. newscasts along with Nicole Perez.   <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Chris Gothner\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/3be3b5ed-fb4b-43ce-8b.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Chris Gothner <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Chris Gothner joined the Local 10 News team in 2022 as a Digital Journalist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0August 25, 2026 at 5:34 PM Updated:\u00a0August 25, 2026 at 5:45 PM FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. \u2014 Broward College&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-381241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381241","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=381241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}