Longtime academic Santa Ono has been rejected for the University of Florida presidency by the state university system board.

ORLANDO, Fla. - Santa Ono was rejected in his bid to become the University of Florida president in a Tuesday Board of Governors vote. The Florida state university system’s Board of Governors met June 3 at the University of Central Florida campus in Orlando to approve a motion to confirm Ono as president.

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