 Now, former Senator Ben Sasse is resigning as president of the University of Florida. It was just a year and a half ago that Ben Sasse quit the U.S. Senate to take the job as president of the University of Florida. The former Nebraska senator had fallen into disfavor among Republicans after voting to convict President Trump in his second impeachment trial. Sasse has announced he will leave the university at the end of this month to care for his wife, Melissa, recently diagnosed with epilepsy.