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

If Nunez is selected, she would resign as lieutenant governor and Gov. Ron DeSantis would have to appoint a replacement.

Jeanette Nuñez, who has spent her career in politics, has a resume that marks a departure from previous FIU presidents.

After FAU relaunched the search, Hasner, a former Republican majority leader in the Florida House, emerged as a finalist. Now ...

Jeanette Nuñez has confirmed that she has been selected as interim president of Florida International University by the ...

Florida Atlantic University hired a former GOP lawmaker as president, and Florida International University tapped the ...

Florida Lt. Gov. Jeanette Nuñez is set to take a new job. Florida International University announced Friday that Nuñez was ...

Hasner is the latest in a string of former lawmakers who’ve become a Florida college or university president in recent years.

Miami native Jeanette Nunez is a graduate of Florida International University. She begins the job later this month.

In a Friday morning online vote, the Florida International University Board of Trustees hired Lt. Gov. Jeanette Nunez as its ...

Calling her "the mother of panthers," after the school's mascot, the Florida International ... will become a senior vice president and chief administrative officer at the university.