Dawn M. Rhodes, DBA

Chief Business and Finance Officer and Senior Vice President
Phone: 410-706-2802
Email: drhodes@umaryland.edu
Dawn Rhodes serves as chief business and finance officer and senior vice president, overseeing UMB's $1.3 billion budget. She has 40 years of experience in finance and operations, including 30 in higher education. Since joining UMB in 2016, she has brought transparency to university finances, launched a revitalized Live Near Your Work program, created several new offices in the Administration and Finance department including the Office of Emergency Management and the Office of Sustainability, and hired the division’s first executive director of diversity and inclusion. She has a Bachelor of Business Administration-Accounting from the University of Michigan, an MBA from the University of Toledo, and a Doctorate of Business Administration from University of Maryland Global Campus.