Santa Ono, the sole finalist for the University of Florida’s top job, held sessions with students and faculty.

Students and faculty staged protests demanding that the school divest from companies doing business in Israel. In May 2024, ...

Santa Ono's tenure was the shortest of any U-M president in history, except for those who held the office on an interim basis ...

Dr. Santa J. Ono, the current president of the University of Michigan, is the only finalist to become the University of ...

Santa Ono wrote in an op-ed that he closed the University of Michigan's DEI office because it became too much about ideology, ...

"A lot of people really wanted him to succeed," one UM professor said about Ono, who is leaving for the University of Florida ...

Ono will go down as a significant leader at UM. He led major strategic shifts and mega-projects at the university despite the ...

Former President Mary Sue Coleman took over for him until Ono arrived. "I met him once at like a meet-and-greet when he first started and everyone was super excited," she said. "There was a huge ...

Santa Ono appears poised to jump from the University of Michigan to the top job at the University of Florida. But some powerful conservative figures have concerns over DEI.

Boyd said he disagreed with Ono's decision to close the Michigan DEI office, but felt he took a nuanced and respectful approach to the controversial topic. He also said he is happy that Ono is ...

among other measures that took the university more than two steps back," Modrak wrote. In an op-ed, Ono defended his actions and wrote that DEI became more about ideology, division and bureaucracy ...