Vincent Patrick Burke CBE (August 3, 1878 – December 19, 1953) was a Newfoundland educator and administrator and a member of the Senate of Canada.
[1] Burke was a member of the Dominion of Newfoundland's Council of Higher Education which was established in 1893 by members of the various religious denominations that operated schools in the province (there was no public school system) to facilitate the pursuit of post-secondary education by Newfoundlanders.
In 1919, Burke, as superintendent of Catholic education on the island and his Methodist counterpart on the CHE, Levi Curtis, co-sponsored a resolution of the Patriotic Association urging the Newfoundland government to build a training school as a memorial to those who died during World War I.
[3] As part of the CHE's effort to create the university, Burke arranged a grant of $300,000 from the Carnegie Corporation.
[1] He continued in the post of Deputy Minister until 1927 when he was named Secretary of Education[5] Burke was also chairman of the Newfoundland School Curriculum Commission from 1933 to 1934.