Wayne Archer to retire from the Warrington College of Business
Wayne Archer’s impact over the past 50 years on the University of Florida and the state’s real estate industry is undeniable.
Growing up on the plains of Kansas, Wayne Archer once thought that he would like to spend his life working the land as a farmer. As a youngster, he spent several summers at the original location where his grandparents carved out their first homestead residence, a dugout on the side of a gully. It was there that Archer admired his uncles as farmers and dreamed of becoming one himself.
From a young age, though, he could see the transformation of farming that was already starting to eliminate the family farms that were the foundation of rural communities, like where his father’s family lived, Densmore, now a ghost town.
While Archer would never follow in his paternal family’s farming footsteps, thinking about land usage combined with the passion for education he gained from his mother would lead him to his career of more than 50 years – real estate professor.