Dr. Joseph Glover

Interim Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs

Joe Glover became Interim Provost in September 2024, resuming his 15-year career as UF's chief academic officer after a brief period as provost of the University of Arizona.

Glover served as UF Provost from 2008 to 2023. Prior to that appointment, his academic leadership positions at UF included interim provost, associate provost for academic affairs, and interim dean and associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Having arrived at UF in 1982 as an assistant professor in mathematics, he served as chair of the mathematics department from 1993 to 1998.

As provost, Glover conceptualized and spearheaded UF's embrace of AI in education, a university wide initiative launched in 2020 that has since won the university recognition as the nation's leading university in AI across the curriculum. He led administrators in planning and implementing the UF Preeminence Plan, a multiyear effort to recruit all-star faculty in key fields that helped drive UF's rise into the Top Ten in 2017 in the U.S. News Best Colleges rankings and subsequent ascent into the Top 5. UF launched UF Online, the Pathway to Campus Enrollment, or PaCE program, and the UF Innovation Academy under his leadership.

As interim provost, Glover's priorities include continuing to guide UF's ascent as the nation's AI University, contributing to developing the academic programs at a new graduate education campus in Jacksonville and a renewed focus on UF's climb in the national and international rankings.

Glover received his bachelor's degree in mathematics from Cornell University and his master's and doctoral degrees in mathematics from the University of California, San Diego. He taught at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Rochester before joining the University of Florida faculty. He held a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellowship at UCSD and an NSF-CNRS fellowship at the Universite de Grenoble II.

His research in probability theory, stochastic processes, and potential theory has been supported by the NSF, the AFOSR, and the NSA.  He served as an associate editor of the Journal of Theoretical Probability (1996-2007) and, since 2001, Glover has provided orientation and training to new department chairs in the State University System through the Institute for Academic Leadership.