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              Jonica Burke has accepted the position of director of institutional finance at Shawnee State University effective Monday, Feb. 1. Her duties include establishing goals, objectives, policies and procedures for the effective management of institutional and strategic budgetary and financial processes for the university.
              Burke will assure the implementation of a sustainable and transparent budgetary system, generating, tracking and reporting critical financial and institutional data working toward the development of strategies for longer term, data-driven forecasting. She will report directly to the Vice President for Finance and Administration Elinda Boyles.
              “This position will strengthen the university’s budgeting and institutional financial strategic planning efforts,” Boyles said. “The position will also support the Office of the President and provide analytical support for policy-level decisions.”
              Burke has served as SSU’s registrar since 2007. She has worked at the University of Houston, Columbus College of Art and Design and The Ohio State University. She served as a graduate research/teaching assistant at the University of Kentucky’s Martin School of Public Policy and Administration.
              “The new funding formula at the state level has created a lot of changes on all of the state campuses,” Burke said. “One of the goals of the new position is to continue to maintain quality and really hit some of the benchmarks that the chancellor has set.”
              Burke has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Houston, a master’s degree in public policy and management, and a master’s degree in natural resources from The Ohio State University. She is a candidate for a Ph.D. in public administration with a concentration in public budgeting and finance at Martin School of Public Policy and Administration, University of Kentucky.
              I will be analyzing our current budget data finding out where we are and how we can best spend our money to get to the goals we have set to provide quality education for our students, and to make sure we continue to grow and develop as we have been in the last few years,” Burke said.