Ron DeSantis thought he cleaned up Florida’s universities.
But the radicals found a way to keep their agenda alive.
And one University of Florida provost got caught red-handed with one scheme that will leave Ron DeSantis seeing red.
Provost Joe Glover orchestrates shadow hiring to defy state law
University of Florida Provost Joe Glover just got caught running an underground operation to install radical leftist administrators in direct violation of Florida law.¹
Leaked footage from job interviews reveals candidates openly strategizing about how to continue DEI programs while hiding their activities from public scrutiny.²
This comes after DeSantis thought he’d solved the problem back in April when previous leaks forced him to freeze all high-level administrative hiring at UF.³
Glover learned his lesson from that embarrassment – but not the one DeSantis intended.
Instead of complying with Florida’s landmark Senate Bill 266 banning DEI programs, Glover took his resistance underground.⁴
He banned all Zoom links and recording of candidate interviews for the Director of Latin American Studies position through an internal September 12 memo.⁵
https://twitter.com/AlachuaChronic1/status/1977849228643709006
The memo stated flatly: "all meetings are 100% in-person, zoom links will not be provided, therefore, the seminars will not be recorded."⁶
Glover personally oversaw implementation of DEI programs at UF before reforms passed.⁷
Now he’s conducting a shadow hiring process to bring back everything DeSantis worked to eliminate.
Sources inside UF leaked the footage anyway to the X account @CommiesOnCampus, which has become a major headache for administrators trying to subvert Florida law.⁸
Job candidates caught on camera pledging to violate state law
The leaked interviews expose exactly what Glover was trying to hide.
Former Latin American Studies director Carlos de la Torre asked both candidates the same loaded question during their interviews.⁹
"What would you do to protect us in this environment of censorship and attacks on academic freedom? Because most of the things that we do at the Center are forbidden by the State and the Trump administration."¹⁰
That’s not a job interview question – that’s recruiting co-conspirators.
de la Torre himself was removed as LAS director in early 2025 for activism after vowing to continue promoting "social justice in the Americas" despite being fired.¹¹
The first candidate, Oscar Perez Hernandez from Skidmore College, promised to keep the illegal work going under different labels.¹²
"A guiding light is our values and our work are not connected to specific words or specific things," Hernandez stated. "There are ways to continue to do the work that are compliant with the law but are also consistent with our values."¹³
Translation: We’ll call it something else and keep doing exactly what we’re doing.
The second candidate, Maria Pilar Useche, went even further by explicitly promising to hide her activities from media oversight.¹⁴
"We can go directly to our administrators with concerns and figure out what’s the best way to handle them. I would do this in person. Not in any setting where the media is recording."¹⁵
Both finalists just admitted on camera they plan to violate Florida law while hiding their actions from public scrutiny.
https://twitter.com/CommiesOnCampus/status/1977721490389790788
Resume scrubbing reveals candidates know they’re breaking the law
Both candidates immediately started covering their tracks once they were announced as finalists.¹⁶
Perez scrubbed his resume of all DEI references, turning a 22-page document dated June 1, 2024 into a 15-page version.¹⁷
Gone was his role at Skidmore College advancing "Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging" goals in 2023-2024.¹⁸
He deleted how he "championed the program’s engagement with issues that affect Black, indigenous, LGBTQ+, and disabled communities" and "fostered strategic alliances with departments and programs committed to social justice."¹⁹
The resume scrubbing proves these candidates know exactly what they’re doing violates Florida law.
You don’t delete seven pages of your professional accomplishments unless you’re trying to hide something illegal.
https://twitter.com/CommiesOnCampus/status/1977723789577224318
Florida’s DEI ban targets exactly what Latin American Studies program promotes
Florida’s Senate Bill 266, signed by Governor DeSantis on May 15, 2023, requires the Florida Board of Governors to eliminate programs based on "theories that systemic racism, sexism, oppression, and privilege are inherent in the institutions of the United States."²⁰
The law took effect July 1, 2023 and has been enforced across Florida’s public university system.²¹
UF’s Latin American Studies program morphed into exactly the kind of program SB 266 was designed to ban.²²
LAS focuses on tracing inequities in Latin America back to American capitalism, racism, and culture – the precise framework Florida law prohibits.²³
The DeSantis administration already signaled displeasure with LAS by removing all its general education course offerings earlier this year.²⁴
Florida’s Board of Governors eliminated 13 full-time DEI positions at UF in March 2024 as part of implementing the reforms.²⁵
But Glover is trying to resurrect the banned ideology by installing true believers in key administrative positions.
The Latin American Studies program operates in legal gray area – it may continue to exist if funded through non-state money, but cannot grant degrees under current Florida law.²⁶
Pattern of administrative resistance at UF goes back to April 2025
This isn’t the first time Glover’s handpicked candidates got caught pledging to continue DEI work in violation of state law.
Back in April 2025, leaked videos exposed multiple finalists for dean positions at UF boasting about their DEI support.²⁷
One finalist explicitly told faculty: "we’re going to continue to do the [DEI] work, even if we label it something else."²⁸
That April exposure was so damaging that DeSantis ordered a complete freeze on all UF high-level administrative hiring until a new president was installed.²⁹
During a UF Faculty Senate meeting after that disaster, the university’s then-president instructed faculty to stop recording interviews or holding public forums for candidates.³⁰
That’s when Glover implemented his no-recording, in-person-only policy for the Latin American Studies search.³¹
The strategy was clear: prevent another public relations disaster by keeping the law-breaking private.
Sources inside the university leaked the footage anyway, proving that sunlight remains the best disinfectant for bureaucratic corruption.
UF’s interim president must clean house starting with Glover
University of Florida’s interim president Donald W. Landry took the job in August 2025 and faces his first major test of leadership.³²
Glover has proven himself a dedicated opponent of DeSantis reforms, undermining their spirit whenever the spotlight moves elsewhere.³³
The provost position gives Glover enormous power over faculty hiring across the entire university.
Landry needs to ask himself a simple question: Can UF become a world-class institution while its second-in-command actively sabotages state law?
Glover personally oversaw implementation of DEI programs and personnel at UF before reforms passed.³⁴
He’s not some neutral administrator caught between competing pressures – he’s an ideological warrior fighting to preserve the system he built.
The Latin American Studies program represents everything wrong with how administrators are trying to preserve DEI under different labels.
Some things must be destroyed if UF wants to build a world-class university focused on academic excellence instead of political activism.
Landry has the authority to replace Glover and send a message that administrative defiance of state law won’t be tolerated.
DeSantis already froze hiring once because of Glover’s candidates.
How many more exposures will it take before someone holds this provost accountable?
The leaked footage proves what many suspected – university bureaucrats never intended to comply with Florida’s DEI ban.
They just learned to be more careful about hiding their resistance.
¹ Scott Yenor & Steven DeRose, "Univ. of Florida Provost Plots to Undermine DeSantis’ DEI Ban," The Daily Signal, October 13, 2025.
² – ¹⁹ Ibid.
²⁰ "Florida Senate Bill 266," Wikipedia, accessed October 14, 2025.
²¹ Ibid.
²² Yenor & DeRose, "Univ. of Florida Provost Plots to Undermine DeSantis’ DEI Ban."
²³ Ibid.
²⁴ Ibid.
²⁵ "Florida universities eliminate DEI positions," Prism Reports, March 13, 2024.
²⁶ Yenor & DeRose, "Univ. of Florida Provost Plots to Undermine DeSantis’ DEI Ban."
²⁷ – ³⁴ Ibid.
