Valerie Miller is the executive director of the Office of Student Financial Aid and Scholarships at Ohio University where she has served since 1996. She has been in the role of director since 2011. As director, Valerie oversees the administration of all federal, state and institutional financial aid as well as the university’s major renewable scholarship program. In 2021, her department managed $233 million in financial aid to undergraduate students and more than $400 million to all students. Prior to joining OHIO, Valerie worked in school/lender relations in the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education’s Guaranteed Student Loan Program. Her career in financial aid originally began as a student employee and then as financial aid counselor at Pittsburg State University in Kansas, where she also earned a bachelor’s degree in Finance and a Master of Business Administration.