New Vice Provost Appointed

Campus Community, 

I am pleased to inform you that Jana Jasinski has agreed to serve as the vice provost at the University of Kentucky, effective August 15, 2024. This announcement is the result of feedback from faculty, staff and students and the search advisory committee.

Last fall, I announced that this new leadership role was being developed in the Office of the Provost. The vice provost will partner with colleges, their leaders and other senior leadership on campus — providing strategic leadership of resources, compliance and service excellence — to continue our mission to advance Kentucky.

Dr. Jasinski brings with her the experience and skills necessary to excel in this new role. She has served as the vice provost for Faculty Excellence at the University of Central Florida (UCF) since July 2018. In this role, she led faculty recruitment, retention, development and inclusion efforts among many other initiatives to support and strengthen their faculty body.

In 1999, Dr. Jasinski joined UCF as an assistant professor of sociology and has since served in multiple faculty and administrative roles, including chair of the Department of Sociology, associate dean in the College of Graduate Studies and associate dean in the College of Sciences. Over the past 25 years, Dr. Jasinski has earned many awards and honors for her dedication and service to the University of Central Florida.

Dr. Jasinski is a three-time graduate of the University of New Hampshire, where she earned her doctoral degree in sociology. Her research primarily focuses on the areas of interpersonal violence, substance use and institutional responses to violence. She has received multiple grants from the National Institute of Justice and served as a co-lead of UCF’s interdisciplinary Violence Against Women faculty research group.

Please join me in congratulating Dr. Jasinski. I know she is eager to join our campus community in this new role.

Robert S. DiPaola, M.D. 
Provost