{"id":105899,"date":"2020-01-10T16:22:29","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T21:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/?p=105899"},"modified":"2020-01-10T16:23:22","modified_gmt":"2020-01-10T21:23:22","slug":"leadership-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/leadership-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Leadership Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we begin a year that will bring changes to UCF, I have a leadership update to share with our university community.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier today, I placed Provost Elizabeth Dooley on paid administrative leave. She agreed this decision allows her to temporarily step away while we work to fully understand concerns that have been raised, and I appreciate her commitment to cooperate.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, I have asked Jana Jasinski, vice provost for Faculty Excellence, to serve as acting provost.<\/p>\n<p>Times of transition are always stressful, and I know this past year has been especially difficult for our university. But through it all, you have continued to serve our students and community with distinction and a commitment to our values.<\/p>\n<p>You have my commitment to keep moving us forward and building a brighter future for us all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An update from Interim President Thad Seymour Jr.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":94165,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"lazy_load_responsive_images_disabled":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[18081,17563],"tu_author":[],"class_list":["post-105899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colleges","tag-president","tag-thad-seymour-jr"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.3 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Leadership Update | University of Central Florida News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"An update from Interim President Thad Seymour Jr.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/leadership-update\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Leadership Update\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"An update from Interim President Thad Seymour Jr.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/leadership-update\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"University of Central Florida News | UCF Today\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/UCF\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-01-10T21:22:29+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-01-10T21:23:22+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2019\/02\/UCF-Millican-Hall.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Laura J. 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