Alexander Cartwright (academic)
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Alexander Nevin Cartwright is a US academic and President of the University of Central Florida in Orlando, Florida. Before his nomination to UCF, he was the chancellor of the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri,[1] and Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor of the State University of New York.[2] On March 20, 2020, Cartwright was nominated by a unanimous vote of the UCF Board of Trustees to become President-Elect of UCF,[3] and was then confirmed by the Florida Board of Governors on March 25, 2020.[4] He became the acting President of UCF on April 13, 2020, succeeding Interim President Thad Seymour.
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Alexander N. Cartwright | |
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6th President of the University of Central Florida | |
Assumed office April 13, 2020 | |
Preceded by | Thad Seymour (interim) |
9th Chancellor of the University of Missouri | |
In office August 1, 2017 ā March 26, 2020 | |
Preceded by | R. Bowen Loftin Garnett Stokes (interim) |
Succeeded by | Mun Choi |
Personal details | |
Born | Alexander N. Cartwright |
Occupation | academic administrator, professor |
Website | www |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Iowa (BS, PhD) |
Thesis | Nonlinear optical properties of hetero n-i-p-i device structures (1995) |
Doctoral advisor | Arthur L. Smirl |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Electrical and Computer Engineering |
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