UF senior staffers racked up hundreds of thousands of dollars in travel costs after Ben Sasse allowed them to work remotely
The University of Florida (UF) spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on travel for highly paid Republican hires of then-President Ben Sasse, who permitted them to work from home in other states while commuting periodically to the school’s campus, according to newly released records.
The new figures add to mounting questions about unusually high expenditures of public money by the university president’s office until Sasse’s unexpected resignation last month. More than half the $211,824 itemized expenses attributed to six of his senior UF hires working remotely over 17 months was for airfare or train tickets, plus nearly $50,000 more for hotels.
The costs included all their work-related trave...
