Alexander N. Cartwright is a US academic and President of the
University of Central Florida
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in
Orlando
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,
Florida
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. Before his nomination to UCF, he was the chancellor of the
University of Missouri
The University of Missouri (Mizzou, MU, or Missouri) is a public land-grant research university in Columbia, Missouri. It is Missouri's largest university and the flagship of the four-campus University of Missouri System. MU was founded in ...
in
Columbia,
Missouri
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, and Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor of the
State University of New York. On March 20, 2020, Cartwright was nominated by a unanimous vote of the
UCF Board of Trustees
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to become President-Elect of UCF, and was then confirmed by the
Florida Board of Governors
The Florida Board of Governors is a 17-member governing board that serves as the governing body for the State University System of Florida, which includes all public universities in the state of Florida.
After its predecessor, the Florida Board of ...
on March 25, 2020.
He became the acting President of UCF on April 13, 2020, succeeding Interim President Thad Seymour.
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Leaders of the University of Missouri
People from Columbia, Missouri
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
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