{"id":10798,"date":"2025-07-31T22:09:27","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T22:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/leadership\/president\/?post_type=person&#038;p=10798"},"modified":"2025-08-18T13:50:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T13:50:25","slug":"john-buckwalter","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/leadership\/president\/person\/john-buckwalter\/","title":{"rendered":"John Buckwalter, Ph.D."},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t\t<div class=\"row d-flex\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"flex-first col-lg-4\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"305\" height=\"305\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-10799 img-fluid\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/leadership\/president\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/07\/Buckwalter-2025.png\" alt=\"Headshot of Dr. John Buckwalter\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/leadership\/president\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/07\/Buckwalter-2025.png 305w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/leadership\/president\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/07\/Buckwalter-2025-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/leadership\/president\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/07\/Buckwalter-2025-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 305px) 100vw, 305px\" \/><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"text-left mb-2 flex-md-last flex-lg-unordered col-lg-8\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\n<p><b>John Buckwalter<\/b>, Ph.D., is 麻豆原创\u2019s provost and executive vice president for Academic Affairs. He joined Florida\u2019s Premier Engineering and Technology University in August 2025, bringing more than 20 years of academic leadership and a strong commitment to student success, faculty support and meeting workforce needs.<\/p>\n<p>As 麻豆原创\u2019s chief academic officer, Buckwalter provides strategic leadership for impactful teaching, research, and service across 12 colleges. He supports more than 3,000 faculty members who prepare 69,000 students to excel academically and professionally. His responsibilities also include oversight of 麻豆原创\u2019s campuses as well as collaborative management of the university\u2019s academic operating budget.<\/p>\n<p>Before joining 麻豆原创, Buckwalter served as provost at Boise State University, where he led transformative interdisciplinary initiatives and championed student-centered outcomes. He previously was dean of the College of Health and Human Sciences at Kansas State University, where he expanded graduate offerings, grew the college\u2019s endowment by over 40%, secured new research facilities and launched a career-focused mentoring program. Earlier, he held leadership roles at the University of Texas at Arlington, including associate dean for research and chair of the Department of Kinesiology.<\/p>\n<p>Buckwalter holds master\u2019s and doctoral degrees in kinesiology with an emphasis in exercise physiology from the University of Arkansas. He earned two bachelor\u2019s degrees \u2014 in Spanish and in health and physical education \u2014 from Centenary College.<\/p>\n<p>His research has explored neural and cardiovascular regulation of blood flow during exercise. He is a fellow of both the American Physiological Society and the American College of Sports Medicine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/provost.ucf.edu\/\">Visit the Office of the Provost website<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&nbsp;","protected":false},"featured_media":10799,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10798","person","type-person","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","people_group-cabinet"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>John Buckwalter, Ph.D. | Office of the President<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" 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