Dr. Matt Jacobs

Interim Associate Provost for Student Success

Matt Jacobs, Ph.D., is Interim Associate Provost and leader of UF Student Success in the Provost’s Office and Director of UF’s Bob Graham Center for Public Service.

As Interim Associate Provost, Dr. Jacobs leads a team of academic specialists who focus on initiatives and academic programs that promote students’ academic success and lifelong wellbeing in academic learning success, experiential and engaged learning, university advising, and academic pathways. As Director of the Graham Center, he is building on the center’s curricular, co-curricular, experiential learning, and public programming initiatives and broadening 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.

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, and 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.