The Board of Trustees should tell them they are welcome to leave Gainesville and seek positions at any other institute of higher learning.
I agree. The Board should tell them they are replaceable. They will act with tolerance and respect or they are free to leave. We need another let that sink in moment. Then, quietly organize conservative students to protest the protesting teachers who are wasting their tuition and time with their political causes. Don’t show support for Sasse. Put all energy against biased teachers and their intolerance towards others.
That is what will more or less happen. As elsewhere, at my alma mater, the faculty senate is dominated by left wing kooks and troublemakers. In Red State Florida though, the Board of Trustees is dominated by men and women of talent and accomplishment in the business world. They will politely ignore the faculty senate and pick Sasse as the U of Florida’s next President based on his expected ability to raise gobs of private and public money.