Dr. Matt Jacobs

Associate Provost of Undergraduate Education and Student Success

Matt Jacobs, Ph.D., is Associate Provost of Undergraduate Education and Student Success in the Provost’s Office. He leads a team of academic specialists who focus on initiatives and academic programs that promote students’ success and lifelong wellbeing through experiential and engaged learning, university advising, and academic pathways. 

Prior to joining the Office of the Provost, Dr. Jacobs served as Director of the Bob Graham Center for Public Service. There, he built on the center’s curricular, co-curricular, experiential learning, and public programming initiatives and broadened the center’s application of three driving principles — civic engagement, public leadership, and public service — while connecting the Center and its students with stakeholders nationally, and internationally.

Dr. Jacobs, an Associate Professor of U.S. and International History, earned his Ph.D. in History at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill in 2002. He joined UF and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS) in 2003. His research focuses on U.S.-Middle East relations, a field in which he has published one book and is currently working on a second. Professor Jacobs has taught courses on U.S. foreign relations, U.S.-Middle East relations, the Vietnam War, and international studies.