J. Scott Angle, who recently served as University of Florida (UF) provost, will return as leader of UF’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS). He will become UF senior vice president for agriculture and natural resources in September, a position he originally assumed in 2020. He left as leader of UF/IFAS in July 2023 to become interim provost and was named provost this January.
UF Interim President Kent Fuchs asked former UF Provost Joe Glover to return to the university to serve as interim provost. Effective Sept. 6, Glover will return as UF’s chief academic officer in an interim role following a brief period as the provost of the University of Arizona. Glover stepped down from his provost role and as senior vice president for academic affairs at UF in July 2023 after a 15-year tenure, one of the longest in university history.
“Serving as your provost for the past months has been an honor,” Angle stated in a letter to faculty and staff. “It was not a position I sought, but I accepted the job with an open heart, and I greatly enjoyed working with my faculty colleagues to support their work and to strengthen UF on all fronts. When I took this position, Dr. Glover graciously offered his support. I am pleased to return the favor.”
As head of UF/IFAS, Angle will lead nearly 2,300 employees who work in all 67 Florida counties. UF/IFAS encompasses the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, the Florida Cooperative Extension Service and the Florida Agricultural Experiment Station.
Before originally becoming head of UF/IFAS in 2020, Angle served as director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture. From 2005 to 2015, he served as dean of the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences at the University of Georgia. He also previously worked as a professor of soil science at the University of Maryland and later as director of the Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station and Maryland Cooperative Extension.
Source: University of Florida
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