Dr. Kim Capriotti has been the NCAA Faculty Athletics Representative (FAR) for Jacksonville University (JU) since spring 2004. She is dedicated to ensuring the balance between athletics and academics for the benefit of JU’s student-athletes’ health and well-being. In 2021, she was selected as the Division I FAR of the Year by the Faculty Athletics Representative Association (FARA).
Capriotti recently completed her service on the NCAA Division I Council and the Division I Student-Athlete Experience Committee. Previously, she served a three-year term on the Division I Men’s Basketball Oversight Committee and prior to that she served on the Division I Legislative Council and the Division I Academic Cabinet.
Capriotti has also been an active leader in the ASUN Conference, serving on the various conference committees: sports policy, strategic planning, constitution & bylaw, marketing, and student-athlete welfare. She was the recipient of the inaugural ASUN’s Stellar Service Honor in 2019.
As a faculty member at JU, Capriotti has served as an associate professor of finance and accounting in the Davis College of Business & Technology since August 2001. She currently teaches the accounting and finance introductory courses, in addition to the auditing course in the accounting major.
Capriotti has published papers in several journals, including Issues in Accounting Education, Journal of Business Cases & Applications, and most recently in the Journal of Forensic & Investigative Accounting.
Prior to JU, Capriotti was a faculty member at the University of North Florida from August 1994 to May 2001, where she taught finance and accounting courses. During that time, she earned the University’s Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award in 2001.
Prior to pursuing her academic career, Capriotti was a staff auditor for Touche Ross (now Deloitte) in Minneapolis. She currently has a retired certificate status for her Minnesota CPA certificate.
Before making her way to the First Coast, she began her teaching career at the University of Minnesota (1986-87) and Florida State University (1987-91) as a graduate instructor before serving as an assistant professor of accounting at Drake University (1992-93).
A native of Cincinnati, Capriotti is a graduate of the University of Kentucky, where she received her BS in accounting before earning her masters of business administration degree at the University of Minnesota in 1987. She went on to earn her doctorate in accounting at Florida State University in 1992. Capriotti and her husband, Martin, have two adult children, Ally and Matthew.
