Interim Vice President, Information Technology and Chief Information Officer, and Dean, Burnett Honors College
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Biography
Dr. Sheila Amin is the interim vice president of Information Technology and chief information officer at the University of Central Florida. She also leads as dean of the Burnett Honors College, UCF’s 4-year honors program that fosters and showcases exceptional student scholarship, leadership and creativity.
She joined UCF in 2018 as dean and a professor of public administration and was reappointed in 2023 for a five-year term. Previously, she served as executive vice president for academic affairs and special initiatives at Austin College in Sherman, Texas. Amin has also served as dean of undergraduate education and professor of economics at the University of Texas at Dallas.
She is a founding (emeritus) fellow of the University of Texas System Academy of Distinguished Teachers and served as an American Council of Education Fellow and Fulbright Research Scholar in Colombia. She is active nationally with honors education and co-founded the Council of Higher Education, which serves honors colleges and programs at the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities. Amin also serves on the ACE Women’s Networking Executive Council and is a Jacob K. Javits Fellow and H.B. Earhart Fellow. Her research focuses on economic development and political stability in developing countries.