ORLANDO, Fla. – After nearly a year of searching the University of Central Florida has selected Dr. Alexander Cartwright, currently a chancellor of the University of Missouri, to become UCF’s sixth president.
The UCF Board of Trustees announced Friday it had selected Cartwright over another finalist, based on his “proven experience as a leader both in Missouri and previously as provost and executive vice chancellor for the State University of New York," according to a statement.
UCF has been searching for a new president since last May when former President Dale Whittaker resigned. Whittaker stepped down, he said, in order to renew trust between UCF and the Florida Legislature in the wake of the school’s misuse of $38 million on building