Peter French, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, announced on Tuesday that Francis A. Drolette has been hired as the Vice President for Budget and Planning. As the Universitys primary budget officer, French wrote, the Vice President for Budget and Planning coordinates the preparation, implementation and analysis of the Universitys annual operating budget of over $200 million and the annual capital budget of $40 million.

Drolette worked as Assistant Director and then Associate Director for the Office of Budget and Planning before leaving in 1991 to become Director of Financial Planning and Budgeting and Director of Collaborative Strategies for the Babson-Olin College Partnership. She has also worked as an Associate Dean at Boston University.

Pat Garofalo