Dr. Adam Burke is the Interim Associate Vice Chancellor for Student Life at the University of Minnesota Duluth. In this role he oversees a comprehensive campus recreation department in addition to a portfolio of student engagement and wellbeing departments including the Career Center, Disability Resources, Student Health and Counseling, the Student Union, and an 18,000 acre Environmental Learning Center. Adam has a unique educational background in the environmental sciences, college teaching and higher education administration giving him a broad lived-experience within higher education. He received his Doctorate of Education in Higher Education Administration from the University of Wyoming where he focused on the impacts of professional staff on student success in U.S. higher education.
Dr. Burke has served multiple institutions in a variety of roles within student affairs and collegiate recreation. His career began as an undergraduate student where he served as a resident assistant and intramural sports official at Colorado State University. He then served as a graduate assistant in sports and special programs at Oregon State University before graduating and moving into a professional role at the University of Wyoming. While at Wyoming, Adam served in multiple roles, including as the Assistant Director of Programs where he oversaw sport clubs, intramural sports, and outdoor programming. He then moved onto the University of Minnesota Duluth to serve as the Director of the Recreational Sports Outdoor Program, a comprehensive collegiate recreation department. Dr. Burke continues to oversee campus recreation within his current role at UMD as the Interim Associate Vice Chancellor for Student Life.
Dr. Burke has been a NIRSA member since 2012 and has served the association in multiple roles at the state, regional and national level. He has been an active NIRSA member in attending and presenting at NIRSA conferences, at all levels, throughout his career providing him with a broad perspective of the association and its members. Adam has been an active volunteer on the NIRSA Assembly, Recreational Sports Journal Editorial Board, has authored NIRSA publications, served on NIRSA committees, conference host committees, work teams, and has been a NIRSA Championship Series volunteer.