Lisa Jasinski is a strategic academic leader who believes that at their best, colleges and universities can be equity-minded learning institutions committed to the learning and growth of students as well as their faculty and staff.
About Lisa
In 2024, Lisa was named the ninth president of the Associated Colleges of the Midwest (ACM) where she supports innovation, collaboration, professional development, and excellence for fourteen exceptional residential liberal arts colleges.
Prior to her appointment at the ACM, Lisa served as Senior Director of Strategic Initiatives in the Office of the President at the University of Texas at San Antonio, where she led a yearlong effort to refresh the university’s ten-year strategic plan. Between 2007 and 2022, she served as special assistant to the vice president of academic affairs at Trinity University where she oversaw a diverse portfolio of special projects and cross-campus initiatives.
Jasinski is the author of Stepping Away: Returning to the Faculty from Senior Academic Leadership (Rutgers University Press, 2023) and co-author of Faculty as Global Learners: Opportunities and Strategies to Support Off-Campus Study Leaders at Liberal Arts Colleges (Lever Press). A recognized thought leader, Lisa has given more than 40 presentations or poster sessions on aspects of higher education leadership at professional conferences, including AAC&U, ASHE, and SXSWedu. Her writings have appeared in The Chronicle on Higher Education, Inside Higher Ed, and HigherEd Jobs.
Lisa completed an American Council on Education Fellowship at the University of New Mexico and has served as a fellow of the Society of College and University Planners. She considers it the honor of a lifetime to have been selected by the U.S. Department of State to serve as a Fulbright Specialist at the University of Jyväskylä and the Finnish Institution for Educational Research.
A true believer in the transformative power of higher education, Lisa is proud to be the first member of her immediate family to have earned a college degree. She holds a B.A. in the History of Art and Architecture from Middlebury College, a M.A. in Communication Arts from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a Ph.D. in Educational Leadership and Policy from The University of Texas at Austin. She has completed the Nonprofit Financial Stewardship Program at the Harvard Kennedy School of Executive Education and the Professional Certificate in Foresight from the University of Houston.
A New Englander by birth, Lisa lives in Chicago, Illinois, and San Antonio, Texas, with her husband, Patrick Keating, a film historian, and their orange cat, Oliver.