- Scott Angle will chair the University of Florida's national search committee for the next provost, including faculty, students, and leadership members.
- Dr. Joe Glover, UF's interim provost since September 2024, previously served 15 years as provost and led the 'AI Across the Curriculum' initiative.
The University of Florida recently announced the committee that will lead a national search for the university’s next provost.
According to an administrative memo sent on Friday, Scott Angle, UF’s Senior Vice President for Agriculture and Natural Resources, will chair the UF Provost Search Committee.
Other members of the search committee include administration, faculty, students and leadership. A list of these members is seen below.
- Matthew Bravo, Undergraduate Student, Student Body President
- Charles Canady, Director, Hamilton School for Classical and Civic Education
- Michelle Castaline, Deputy Chief Financial Officer and Associate Vice President
- F. Chris Curran, Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy, Director of the Education Policy Research Center
- L. Amelia Dempere, Faculty Engineer, Director, Nanoscale Research Facility and Immediate Past Chair of Faculty Senate
- Isabel Garcia, Dean, College of Dentistry
- R. Raymond Issa, Faculty Senate Chair, Distinguished Professor, Director, Center for Advanced Instruction Information Modeling, College of Design, Construction and Planning
- Lyrissa Lidsky, Raymond & Miriam Ehrlich Eminent Scholar Chair in U.S. Constitutional Law, Levin College of Law
- Victoria Pagán, Professor of Classics, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
- Mary Parker, Vice President, Enrollment Management and Chief Enrollment Strategist
- Rahul Patel, Vice Chair, Board of Trustees and Chair, Board Committee on Academic, Faculty & Student Success, Public Relations & Strategic Communications
- Kushagri Sharma, Graduate Assistant in Mathematics, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and President, Graduate Student Council
- Jennifer Tucker, Cook/Deloitte Professor of Accounting, Warrington College of Business
Additionally, Melissa Curry, vice president for Human Resources at UF, and Chad Tindol, senior vice president for Administration at UF, will serve as liaisons to the search committee, according to the memo.
The search committee will be assisted by the global organizational consulting firm Korn Ferry, the memo said. Applications, nominations and comments must be sent to UF-Provost@kornferry.com.
Dr. Joe Glover currently serves as UF’s interim provost and executive vice president for academic affairs. According to his bio, Glover spent 15 years serving as UF’s provost from 2008 to 2023. After a brief stint as provost at the University of Arizona, Glover returned to UF as interim provost in September 2024.
“We are excited to begin the search for the next provost of the University of Florida,” UF President Stuart Bell said in the memo. “We are deeply grateful to Dr. Joe Glover for his decades of dedicated leadership and service. He leaves a lasting mark on our university as the visionary behind the ‘AI Across the Curriculum’ initiative, which has positioned UF as a national leader in artificial intelligence in higher education.”