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Eileen Petula<\/strong>\nVice President for Business & Chief Financial Officer
\nCalvert Hall 109
\n(240) 895-4413<\/a>
\neepetula@smcm.edu<\/a><\/p>\n
Bio<\/h2>\n
In July of 2025, Eileen Petula joined SMCM as the vice president for business and chief financial officer. In this role she is responsible for finance, accounting, budgeting and financial reporting, information technology, human resources, facilities and auxiliary services.<\/p>\n
Petula comes to SMCM after serving as interim chief operating officer at Chatham University. She has held senior executive roles at Bucknell University and Allegheny College, preceded by increasingly responsible roles in higher education financial administration at Lafayette College and Swarthmore College. At Chatham University, she was part of a senior leadership team that steered the institution through the challenge of closing a significant operating budget deficit, implementing a plan that produced balanced budgets and restored fiscal integrity while maintaining the institution\u2019s academic and co-curricular excellence. At Bucknell, she managed the university\u2019s $264 million annual budget and endowment of more than $1 billion.<\/p>\n
A certified public accountant, Petula holds a master’s degree in business administration from Villanova University and a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. She also has extensive experience on boards of directors for a variety of economic development, health care and arts organizations, most recently serving as a board member for the Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry.<\/p>\n
Divisional Leadership Team<\/h2>\n
Wanda Fenwick<\/a><\/strong> E. Jenell Sargent<\/a><\/strong> Melvin McClintock<\/strong><\/a> Mary Grube<\/a><\/strong> Jonathan Dobry<\/a><\/strong> Bradley Newkirk<\/a><\/strong> Anne Marie Brady<\/a><\/strong> Charles A. Wilson III<\/a><\/strong> Marcy McKinney<\/strong><\/a> Contact Info Eileen Petula Vice President for Business & Chief Financial Officer Calvert Hall 109 (240) 895-4413 eepetula@smcm.edu Bio In July of 2025, Eileen Petula joined SMCM as the vice president for business and chief financial officer. In this role she is responsible for finance, accounting, budgeting and financial reporting, information technology, human resources, facilities Find out more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":125,"featured_media":0,"parent":719,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-31","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","5":"entry"},"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smcm.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smcm.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smcm.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smcm.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smcm.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.smcm.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1762,"href":"https:\/\/www.smcm.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31\/revisions\/1762"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smcm.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smcm.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nExecutive Assistant\/VPBF\/BOT
\nwmfenwick@smcm.edu<\/a><\/p>\n
\nAssociate Vice President for Information Technology
\nejsargent@smcm.edu<\/a>
\nOffice of Information Technology<\/a><\/p>\n
\nInterim Assistant Vice President of Human Resources
\nmamcclintock@smcm.edu<\/a>
\nOffice of Human Resources<\/a><\/p>\n
\nAssistant Vice President of Finance
\nmkgrube@smcm.edu<\/a>
\nBusiness Office<\/a><\/p>\n
\nDirector of Capital Planning, Design, and Construction
\njadobry@smcm.edu<\/a>
\nOffice of Planning and Facilities<\/a><\/p>\n
\nDirector of the Physical Plant
\nbdnewkirk@smcm.edu<\/a>
\nPhysical Plant<\/a><\/p>\n
\nAssistant Vice President of Institutional Research and Planning
\nambrady@smcm.edu<\/a>
\nInstitutional Research<\/a><\/p>\n
\nInterim Associate Vice President for Facilities and Campus Architect
\ncawilson1@smcm.edu<\/a><\/p>\n
\nExecutive Director, Auxiliary Services
\nmbmckinney@smcm.edu\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"