Nora R. Miller
                                                                                                                                                                                         Vice President for Finance and Administration
                                                                                                                                                                                         Mississippi University for Women
                                                                                                                                                                                         1100 College St. MUW - 1606
                                                                                                                                                                                         Columbus, MS  39701-5800
                                                                                                                                                                                         Phone:  (662) 329-7145

                                                                                                                                                                                         FAX:  (662) 241-7824
                                                                                                                                                                                          nmiller@muw.edu

2011 SACUBO Award Winner

Mr. Robert L. (Bob) Lovitt

 

 

Mr. Bob Lovitt, winner of the 2011 SACUBO Distinguished Award, retired after serving more than 30 years as a college and university business officer. His accomplishments in this arena were numerous and far-reaching. He began his career as an accountant at the University of Nebraska in 1967 and served in a variety of capacities there for about 16 years. He held several positions, including Comptroller, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Business & Finance and Acting Vice Chancellor for Business & Finance. After a short stint in the banking profession, he returned to higher education as Assistant Vice Chancellor for Planning and Budgeting at the University of Houston in 1984-85. In 1985 he was named Senior Vice President for Business Affairs at the University of Texas at Dallas, where he served in that position for almost 20 years. He then became Executive Vice President for Finance and Administration at Texas A&M – Corpus Christi and worked there for three years, retiring in 2008 to become a consultant in higher education specializing in privatized housing and organizational studies. He was then convinced by Lamar University to serve as their Vice President for Finance and Operations, serving in that role until fall 2010.

 

Mr. Lovitt has volunteered and served in many roles in SACUBO, NACUBO and other organizations. For SACUBO, he chaired the Host Committee for the 2009 annual meeting in Dallas, hosted drive-in workshops, presented workshops on privatized housing, and served as an evaluator for the Best Practices program. He served on many other SACUBO committees over the years, including all Vice President roles, and was President of SACUBO in 2006. In addition, Mr. Lovitt served on the NACUBO Board of Directors for three years and served as the Chair of the Program Committee for privatization workshops, presenting sessions at those events. He also was a presenter for workshops on Presenting Financial Information Effectively in the SACUBO, WACUBO and CACUBO regions, served on the Comprehensive and Doctoral Institutions Committee for several years, and served on a joint committee of NACUBO and the NCAA on presentation of financial information for Intercollegiate Athletics. Mr. Lovitt also was a past national director of the National Association of Accountants and was a member of the Beta Alpha Psi national accounting honorary fraternity.