Happily Stuck in a Power Vacuum

Florida's new university governing board is in no hurry to govern, and the colleges like it that way

By PETER SCHMIDT

Just who, exactly, should be in charge of Florida's public universities? The state's voters thought they answered that question in November, when they overwhelmingly adopted an amendment to the state Constitution that established a Board of Governors to oversee...

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