{"id":2896,"date":"2015-08-18T14:10:49","date_gmt":"2015-08-18T14:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/alumni\/?p=2896"},"modified":"2015-08-18T14:11:36","modified_gmt":"2015-08-18T14:11:36","slug":"dana-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/alumni\/2015\/08\/18\/dana-brown\/","title":{"rendered":"Dana Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/alumni\/files\/2015\/08\/Dana-Brown-2.jpg\" rel=\"\" target=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Dana Brown 2\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2897\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/alumni\/files\/2015\/08\/Dana-Brown-2.jpg\" title=\"\" width=\"251\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span>Jackson State University President Carolyn W. Meyers announces that Dana A. Brown will serve as the University&rsquo;s interim Chief Financial Officer. She will oversee a range of administrative and business operations that support the University&rsquo;s academic mission. Brown has more than 25 years of experience in finance, accounting, budgeting, investment and internal controls.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span>&ldquo;Dana has proven to be an outstanding contributor to the fiscal strength of this institution, and I welcome here to her new role,&rdquo; Meyers said.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span>Brown, who assumed her new role Aug. 1, said she will focus on creating a culture of fiscal understanding. She succeeds Michael Thomas, who served more than five years in the role.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span>&ldquo;I look forward to being consequential to the future of the University, and I&rsquo;m excited to be a member of the&nbsp;Executive Cabinet. I believe President Meyers&nbsp;is leading us in a direction that will ensure the viability of the University for&nbsp;generations to come,&rdquo; Brown said.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span>Before joining JSU, Brown spent 7&frac12; years in private-sector operational positions handling financial statements, budgeting, internal auditing and contract negotiations. During her 19-year career with JSU, she has been instrumental in identifying key operational metrics to measure the current progress of the University&rsquo;s financial strength. She has worked to grow the University&rsquo;s endowment over a 10-year span. In addition, she has served on several teams to improve and expand housing capacity, as well as academic, technology and student facilities.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span>The JSU alum has a Bachelor&rsquo;s of Science degree in Finance and Masters of Business Administration. Also, she has earned certificate designations in treasury, cash and financial management.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span>Brown has been a National Association of College and University Business Officer (NACUBO) presenter and served on task forces for The Treasury Institute of Higher Education.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jackson State University President Carolyn W. Meyers announces that Dana A. Brown will serve as the University&rsquo;s interim Chief Financial Officer. She will oversee a range of administrative and business [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2896"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2898,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2896\/revisions\/2898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}