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He plays a key role in the overall delivery of academic programs, initiatives, and structures that support the students, faculty, and staff at UCF Downtown. Working with both the downtown leadership team and campus communities, Wolf carries out a broad range of strategic and operational duties. He works closely with academic leaders, faculty, and staff to ensure partnership on academic and co-curricular opportunities related to downtown campus programs.
Other responsibilities include oversight of space and classroom utilization, course scheduling, communications and operational initiatives that support UCF Downtown students, faculty, and staff.
- Works with the downtown leadership team and campus communities (including Student Development and Enrollment Services, faculty, staff and students) to ensure partnership on academic and co-curricular opportunities related to downtown campus programs
- Serves as the provost’s office representative regarding all academic programs on the downtown campus
- Collaborates with UCF Downtown administrators to encourage faculty, staff and student involvement in academic and downtown campus activities
- Partners with Valencia College staff to ensure the academic success of students enrolled in downtown programs
- Promotes new and innovative curricula and pilot programs to encourage opportunities for academic engagement at UCF Downtown
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Biography
Dr. Ross Wolf is associate provost at the University of Central Florida, serving as the academic and operational lead for the UCF Downtown campus. In addition to this role, he also serves as a professor in UCF’s Department of Criminal Justice and as a visiting fellow with the Institute for Public Safety, Crime, and Justice at the University of Northampton (United Kingdom), and senior research associate at the Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (Malaysia).
Wolf has over 30 years of experience in higher education, having previously served as a university director of alumni relations, university coordinator of new student orientation, undergraduate program coordinator, graduate program coordinator, doctoral program director and associate dean. He has published over 70 peer-reviewed articles, professional articles, books, and book chapters on campus law enforcement, police administration and management, volunteer policing, police use of force, tourism policing and international policing.
Wolf has led academic excellence and innovation for UCF Downtown since April 2019. That fall, the campus opened to more than 7,700 students in collaboration with Valencia College. Wolf was instrumental in the design, planning and implementation of the shared campus. His responsibilities include academic coordination between multiple colleges and institutions, oversight of space and classroom utilization, campus operational budgeting, philanthropy, research innovation, community outreach and other initiatives that support UCF Downtown students, faculty and staff.