TAMPA, Fla. - On Wednesday, Governor Ron DeSantis was at the University of South Florida to discuss DOGE-style audits at state universities.

Changing tenure

What we know:

During a press conference on Wednesday morning, DeSantis said all tenured professors must now undergo review every five years and can be terminated for poor performance.

"You need to teach. You need to do research to produce, so those performance metrics are very important," DeSantis said. "There have been a lot of unproductive professors who have been filtered out, but we’ve also paired that with giving money to the universities and the presidents can bring in people and pay them."

"We have to set the mission for these schools that are in the best interest in the state of Florida and that’s giving the best val

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