Interim Provost and Senior Vice President, Academic Affairs
Joe Glover
Interim University Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs
Joe Glover became Interim Provost in September 2024, resuming his 15-year career as UF's chief academic officer after a brief period as provost of the University of Arizona.
Glover served as UF Provost from 2008 to 2023. Prior to that appointment, his academic leadership positions at UF included interim provost, associate provost for academic affairs, and interim dean and associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Having arrived at UF in 1982 as an assistant professor in mathematics, he served as chair of the mathematics department from 1993 to 1998.
As provost, Glover conceptualized and spearheaded UF's embrace of AI in education, a university wide initiative launched in 2020 that has since won the university recognition as the nation's leading university in AI across the curriculum. He led administrators in planning and implementing the UF Preeminence Plan, a multiyear effort to recruit all-star faculty in key fields that helped drive UF's rise into the Top Ten in 2017 in the U.S. News Best Colleges rankings and subsequent ascent into the Top 5. UF launched UF Online, the Pathway to Campus Enrollment, or PaCE program, and the UF Innovation Academy under his leadership.
As interim provost, Glover's priorities include continuing to guide UF's ascent as the nation's AI University, contributing to developing the academic programs at a new graduate education campus in Jacksonville and a renewed focus on UF's climb in the national and international rankings.
Assisted by Kim Bagley