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The University of Michigan\u2019s Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs<\/a> met Monday afternoon in the Alexander G. Ruthven Building to discuss the search for a new University president, interference<\/a> in Senate Assembly elections by Medical School administrators and Faculty Senate resolutions<\/a> on a Big Ten legal defense compact.<\/p>\n SACUA members discussed the importance of influencing the search for a new University president throughout the meeting. SACUA chair Derek Peterson expressed his disapproval of former University President Santa Ono \u2014 who resigned<\/a> earlier this month to pursue a presidential position at <\/a>the University of Florida<\/a> shortly after cutting<\/a> all diversity, equity and inclusion programs at the University of Michigan \u2014 and former University President Mark Schlissel \u2014 who was fired<\/a> for his inappropriate relations with a University employee.<\/p>\n \u201cThe last two presidential search processes have given us presidents who \u2014 I think the result was not necessarily in the interest of the institution,\u201d Peterson said. \u201cSanta Ono, plainly, is a climber who was auditioning to be president of the University of Florida for some months before he left.\u201d<\/p>\n Peterson said he believed a potential solution to the recent streak of unpopular and unrepresentative University presidents could be to bring the presidential search process into public view rather than keeping it behind closed doors.\u00a0<\/p>\n