Gregory Baker Wolfe (January 27, 1922 – December 12, 2015) was an American diplomat during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations,[1][2] and later president of two urban institutions of higher education, Portland State University in Portland, Oregon,[3][4] and Florida International University (FIU) in Miami, Florida.
[1][2] Born in Los Angeles[1][5][6] to Russian immigrant parents,[2] Wolfe received an undergraduate degree from Reed College in Portland,[2][1] and a doctorate from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in Massachusetts.
[1] Wolfe served in World War II, and was thereafter an intelligence analyst for the U.S. State Department.
[1] Wolfe was appointed president of Florida International University in 1979,[8] over the objection of some state legislators who preferred a local candidate for the position.
[1] He served until his resignation in 1986,[9] 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.