Administrative Services and Finance is led by Vice President Steve L. Magiera. Vice
President Magiera is the chief fiscal and business officer of the University. The
following officers report directly to the Vice President for Administrative Services
and Finance: Associate Vice President for Administrative Services and Finance, Associate
Vice President and Chief Information Officer for Information Technology Services, Assistant
Vice President for Human Resources, University Controller, Assistant Vice President
of Physical Plant, Assistant Vice President of University Budgets, Director of Facilities
Planning, Director of Operations, and Director of Public Safety.
Vice President Magiera is concurrently the Executive Director of the Florida Gulf
Coast University Financing Corporation. The operations of the Financing Corporation
consist of contracting for the design and construction of student housing, parking
facilities and certain other projects as well as the issuance of bonded debt to finance
such construction.
Prior to his appointment of these positions, V.P. Magiera served as the Vice President
for University Advancement and Executive Director of the University Foundation. He
has served the University and Foundation as Assistant Controller, Director of Finance,
Chief Financial Officer and Assistant Vice President for Advancement. He also currently
serves as the Assistant Treasurer to the University Foundation.
A Certified Public Accountant, he earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting from Indiana
University and a Master’s Degree in Accounting and Taxation from Florida Gulf Coast
University. Mr. Magiera began his career by working as a state auditor with the Indiana
State Board of Accounts for fourteen years. In 1994, he moved to Florida and began
working for a CPA firm in Naples. In 1994, while working for the CPA firm, he performed
the audit of the FGCU Foundation. Mr. Magiera is a member of the Florida Institute
of Certified Public Accountants and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
