AVPs Profile
Dr. Mary Kay Schneider Carodine,
Assistant Vice-President, Student Affairs,
University of Florida
Dr. Mary Kay Schneider Carodine, formerly the Senior Associate Dean of Students, will assume new division-wide responsibilities and her position has been reclassified as Assistant Vice President for Student Affairs. Her career has included various roles in Student Affairs at Georgetown University, the University of Maryland, and Bowling Green State University. She worked at the University of Florida the first time during 1991-1995 in the Reitz Union in Student Activities and returned in 2002 as an Associate Dean of Students. Dr. Mary Kay Schneider Carodine has consistently demonstrated a commitment to creating an inclusive environment for all students, a vision for leadership and service and was instrumental during the strategic planning process for the division. She received her two masters in College Student Personnel and Guidance and Counseling from Bowling Green State University in 1991 and her doctorate in College Student Personnel in 2002 from the University of Maryland. She attained a B.S. in Industrial Engineering and a B.A. in General Arts and Science in 1989 from Pennsylvania State University.
Her duties will involve the supervision of the Center for Leadership and Service; Multicultural and Diversity Affairs; which includes the Institute of Black Culture, Institute of Hispanic-Latino Culture (La Casita), LGBT Affairs, Asian Pacific American Affairs; Off Campus Life; and Student Legal Services. She will serve on the Disaster Plan Committee, the Emergency Alert Notification System Team, and Student Crisis Intervention and will lead our divisional Crisis Management. She will also assist in moving the division’s global initiatives forward by serving as chair of the Global Initiatives Task Force.