Alexander Cartwright | |||||||||||||||
Office: | President of the University of Central Florida | ||||||||||||||
Term Start: | April 13, 2020 | ||||||||||||||
Predecessor: | Thad Seymour (acting) | ||||||||||||||
Office1: | Chancellor of the University of Missouri | ||||||||||||||
Term Start1: | 2017 | ||||||||||||||
Term End1: | 2020 | ||||||||||||||
Predecessor1: | Garnett Stokes (acting) | ||||||||||||||
Successor1: | Mun Choi | ||||||||||||||
Education: | University of Iowa (BS, MS, PhD) | ||||||||||||||
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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.