Dr. W. Kent Fuchs will retire as University of Florida president at the end of the 2021-22 academic year and intends to return to teaching as part of the UF faculty, he announced on Tuesday in a video posted to YouTube.
Fuchs, who came to Florida to replace Bernie Machen in 2015, had previously served as provost and dean of engineering at Cornell, and would likely join Florida’s faculty as part of its College of Engineering.
Fuchs’s tenure was marked first and foremost by a concerted campaign to drive UF up the U.