Alexander N. Cartwright is a US academic and President of the

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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 ...

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, and Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor of the

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. On March 20, 2020, Cartwright was nominated by a unanimous vote of the UCF Board of Trustees to become President-Elect of UCF, and was then confirmed by the

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on March 25, 2020. He became the acting President of UCF on April 13, 2020, succeeding Interim President Thad Seymour.

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