Assistant vice president for student affairs now on board

November 14, 2006

Ainsley Carry has joined the University of Florida as assistant vice president for student affairs. Carry, a UF alum and former member of the Gator football team, comes to the position from Temple University, where he was associate vice president and dean of students.

At Temple University, Carry supervised nine student support areas, including university housing, Greek life, campus recreation, and the student center. He developed and monitored strategic plans for the division of student affairs and chaired the university alcohol task force. Carry also is the founder and former national chair of the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators’ Knowledge Community for Student Leadership Programs. In addition, Carry has worked as the associate dean of students at the University of Arkansas and has served at Southern Methodist University.

Carry received his doctoral degree in higher education, his master’s in counselor education and his bachelor’s in food and resource economics from UF.