Ben Sasse, the Republican senator from Nebraska, is resigning from the Senate to become the next president of the University of Florida. The university’s Board of Trustees voted to appoint Sasse as the school’s 13th president. Sasse, 50, was elected to the Senate in 2014 after serving as president of Midland University in Fremont, Nebraska. He gained a reputation as a conservative intellectual and occasional critic of former President Donald Trump. Sasse’s resignation takes effect in early January. Nebraska’s Republican governor will appoint someone to fill the vacancy ahead of a 2024 special election. Sasse said he was “the biggest free-range kid ever” growing up in rural Nebraska and that the University of Florida’s “public mission” allowing students to “get a world-class education while going big-time in the affordable insolence of an academic Disneyland” resonated with him.
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