Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe GAINESVILLE, Fla., March 23 (UPI) -- The Faculty Senate at the University of Florida has voted against giving former Gov. Jeb Bush an honorary degree. "I really don't feel this is a person who has been a supporter of UF," Kathleen Price, an associate dean at the Levin College of Law, told The Gainesville Sun after the vote. Advertisement University President Bernie Machen called the 38-28 vote "a horrible mistake." But he does not expect any direct backlash from the former governor. "Jeb Bush is a big man in every sense of it, and I bet he'll laugh at it when he hears about it," Machen said. Machen is concerned about the state legislature, where Bush's Republican Party holds a majority. He is trying to win support for a plan to add $1,000 a year to tuition to hire new faculty. Faculty members who opposed the honorary degree blame Bush for a referendum that ended affirmative action in university admissions.
