Steve Lee, vice president for business affairs and chief financial officer at the University of Mobile (UMobile), was awarded the Meritorious Service Award by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC) during its annual meeting Dec. 6–9 in Nashville.
The award was presented in recognition of Lee’s “untiring service on 19 committee visits and as a member of the Accreditation Process Project and the finance subcommittee,” according to SACSCOC President Belle S. Wheelan.
UMobile President Mark Foley said Lee is widely recognized as “one of the foremost financial resources” for schools accredited by SACSCOC.
Lee has served as vice president for business affairs and chief financial officer for UMobile since 1995 and is a certified public accountant. Prior to that he was audit manager at Wilkins Miller CPA and was president and co-owner of Paulk Moving & Storage.
Most recently Lee oversaw the university’s $7 million campus enhancement project, the most far-reaching campus-wide renovation effort in the school’s history.
He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, Alabama Society of Certified Public Accountants, National Association of College and University Business Offices and the Southern Association of College and University Business Offices, where he served on the audit committee.
Lee is a member of the board of trustees of St. Luke’s Episcopal School in Mobile and has served as board treasurer. He is a member of the West Mobile Rotary Club, where he has served as president.
He holds a bachelor of science in business administration from the University of South Alabama and has been a certified public accountant in Alabama since 1990.
(UMobile)
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