Regarding your recent editorial condemning SB 182, which would exempt the names of potential candidates for state university presidencies from the Sunshine Laws until the last 10 days. My mind flashed to Harvard’s David Reisman who wrote that Florida’s Sunshine Law was akin to “a Search and Destroy Process.” Reisman emphasized that although sometimes willing […]
Lawmakers Back Shielding Records in University Searches – The News Service of Florida
Following controversial presidential searches at some public universities, a Florida House panel Tuesday easily approved a bill that would offer confidentiality to candidates during the early stages of searches for new college leaders. With only one dissenting vote, the House Higher Education and Workforce Subcommittee approved the measure (HB 223) by Rep. Neil Combee, a […]
Public Universities, the Private Corporations They Create and Sunshine Law – WGCU
Florida’s public universities have a history of creating foundations. They have names like the Florida Gulf Coast University Foundation or the Florida State University Research Foundation. But these foundations are actually private corporations. And the links between these corporations, which oversee a number of university-related functions from managing athletics departments to constructing housing, and their public universities is […]
