Santa Jeremy Ono, PhD, Senior Vice Provost for Undergraduate Academic Affairs at Emory University, also serves as professor in the Department of Ophthalmology, Department of Medicine, and the Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine. As Vice Provost, Dr. Ono has oversight of student enrollment activities at Emory, including the Office of Admissions, Office of Financial Aid and the Registrar's Office. He has worked to institute a new organizational structure for student enrollment activities, including the formation of a new management council and staff advisory committee.

In 2006-2007 the team announced a new nation-leading financial aid program called Emory Advantage providing both a no loan component and a loan cap program for families with a household income less than $100,000. Dr. Ono also leads or contributes to specific academic initiatives within the university's strategic plan on behalf of the Provost. This has included the creation of new university wide forums such as the Luminaries in Science and Luminaries in Arts & Humanities series, and the Science Distinction Hire initiative (together with Prof. Lanny Liebeskind). The Luminaries program brings world leaders - including Nobel laureates -to campus to engage with both students and faculty. The Provost's Science Distinction Hire Initiative aims to bring clusters of outstanding new science faculty to the university in specific areas of scholarship. Dr. Ono has also helped organize thematic series, such as the Series on Inquiry, Conflict and Peacebuilding in the Middle East. Dr. Ono is the highest ranking Asian American administrator in university history.