Florida's DOGE agency asks university faculty to hand over research

Gov. Ron DeSantis’ office has asked colleges and universities across Florida to hand over detailed information on grants received by faculty and research over the last six years.

Colleges this week began the process of asking professors for the information, which would be supplied for Florida’s newly formed cost-cutting Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, initiative.

“Unfortunately, we do not have any additional insights beyond what was stated in Gov. DeSantis’s executive order forming the Florida DOGE,” Nathaniel Southerland, the vice president of academic affairs at Santa Fe College in Gainesville, wrote in an email to faculty Wednesday. “I remain confident that the information we supply will demonstrate that Santa Fe College is a good steward of taxpayers’ dollars.”

Schools must turn over the list of published papers by Friday, April 18, according to the letter.

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