Joseph Glover, interim dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, will become UF's provost on July 1.
Glover will replace Janie Fouke, who announced her resignation in March.
Glover, whose promotion was announced May 2, signed a three-year contract as provost and will receive $300,000 a year, according to a UF news release.
UF President Bernie Machen touted Glover's more than 25-year history at UF and familiarity with the state's budget in a May 2 e-mail sent to faculty and staff as reason to hire him for the position instead of conducting a national search.
"He has the perfect combination of foresight and institutional memory, and that makes him the ideal person for this job," Machen wrote.
In a telephone interview Friday, Glover said he hopes to focus his attention as provost toward improving the climate of undergraduate education and improving UF's graduation rates.
Glover has served as the interim CLAS dean since January 2007. He was eligible to become the college's permanent dean, but Paul D'Anieri, a University of Kansas official, was chosen to head the college instead.
Before leading UF's largest college, Glover was associate provost for six years and spent nine months as interim provost from December 2004 through August 2005.
Glover joined UF's faculty in 1982 as an assistant professor in the department of mathematics, and he was department chairman from 1993 to 1998.
He also served as associate dean for faculty affairs of CLAS from 1998 to 2001.
Glover said one of the advantages of spending time in the provost's office is that he came into contact with all segments of UF. "Usually when you're a department chair or a dean, you come to know one college fairly intimately," he said.
"I feel that I have a pretty good understanding of a wide variety of units across the university."
