Gregory Baker Wolfe

Gregory Baker Wolfe (born January 27, 1922)[1][2] is a former United States diplomat during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, and later President of two urban institutions of higher education, Portland State University in Portland, Oregon, and Florida International University (FIU) in Miami, Florida. He was born in Los Angeles, California.

Wolfe was president of Florida International University from 1979[3] until his resignation in 1986,[4] during which time he oversaw significant growth as the university progressed from being an exclusively upper-division school (having no freshman or sophomores) to becoming a four year college granting post-graduate degrees. The Florida State Legislature recognized Wolfe's contributions to the growth and emergence of FIU by naming the Gregory Baker Wolfe University Center, located on FIU's Biscayne Bay Campus, in his honor.

References

  1. Wolfe, Gregory B. "California, Birth Index, 1905-199". familysearch.org. Retrieved 10 December 2013.
  2. "New Man At The Helm". Miami News. March 6, 1979. Retrieved 27 May 2010.
  3. "Resignations". Gainesville Sun. December 6, 1988. Retrieved 27 May 2010.

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Preceded by
Branford P. Millar
President of Portland State University
1968 to 1974
Succeeded by
Joseph C. Blumel
Preceded by
Harold Crosby
President of Florida International University
1979 - 1986
Succeeded by
Modesto Maidique