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Longtime Southwest Florida higher education leader Aysegul Timur likes to say she’s guided by three Ps: passion, partnerships and performance. As of July 1, she can also add a fourth P: president.
That’s the day she officially took over as president of Florida Gulf Coast University in Fort Myers. She was chosen by the FGCU board of trustees for the position May 4, and confirmed by the Florida Board of Governors June 22. On July 1 she replaced the retiring Mike Martin, who had been FGCU president for six years. A 25-year veteran in higher education and administration, Timur was most recently vice president and vice provost for strategy and program innovation at FGCU, a post she held since 2019.
Timur is the fifth president of FGCU, founded in 1997. She’s also the first woman president. (In a potential small sign of progress, two of the other biggest higher education institutions in the region by student enrollment, the University of South Florida and St. Petersburg College, are also led by women, with Rhea Law and Tonjua Williams, respectively.)
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