Responding to Student Crises

Many JMU students struggle with financial challenges during their time on campus. These can range from unexpected personal expenses to a need to travel home to support a family member. In tough times, this fund provides direct support to help students meet those challenges, stay in school, and become Dukes for life.

In the toughest times, this fund provides direct support to help students meet those challenges, stay in school, and become Dukes for life.

JMU alumni couple Jamie Jones Miller (’99), Dean and CEO with Northeastern University, and Tim Miller (’96, ’00M), JMU’s Vice President for Student Affairs, established this fund. They endowed it with $70,000 and announced its establishment on Dr. Miller’s 50th birthday. (See the video at the top of this page.) Jamie and Tim are asking the JMU community to join them in growing the available dollars for students.

Give to the Jones Miller Student Emergency Fund.

The Jones Miller Student Emergency Fund is named after their parents: Jamie’s father, Col. Mark Jones (USAF Ret.) and mother, Bobbie Jones, retired from the Defense Intelligence Agency; and Tim’s father, Hugh Miller, III, a U.S. Navy Veteran, and mother, Patricia Miller, a retired school teacher.