Board Chair Rogelio Tovar said Gov. Ron DeSantis' office contacted him and asked him to consider Nuñez as the next president.

Calling her "the mother of panthers," after the school's mascot, the Florida International University Board of Trustees Friday named Lt. Gov. Jeanette Nuñez its interim president. At a meeting ...

The Florida International University Board of Trustees Friday named Lt ... appointment "a great opportunity" and called her "the mother of panthers," the school's mascot. "I have always always been ...