Saint Michael’s College has named a new director of business services, Rob Robinson of Essex Junction. The announcement was made by Neal Robinson, vice president for Finance, on February 16th, effective immediately.
Rob Robinson had been serving as Saint Michael’s associate director of finance since September of 2007, and before that was an IT consultant in the Corporate Financial Systems Center of Excellence at IBM from December 2000 to September 2007. He previously worked for eight years, 1991 to 1999, with Banknorth Group as an assistant vice president in the financial systems area.
In his new job, Rob Robinson will be in charge of outside business relationships within the business of the college—purchasing, contract administration, college insurance programs, and will have oversight of the college bookstore, mailroom and print shop, and provide support for financial systems in the Finance office.
“I hope to be able to maximize the value of these functions within the college for the betterment of the entire institution,” Robinson said. “I want to make sure Saint Michael’s has solid contractual relationships.”
“I love Saint Michael’s,” said Robinson, a 1991 graduate of the college. “When I returned in 2007, it was a chance to come home.” Robinson is also a graduate of the 2010 class of Leadership Champlain. He is an avid cyclist and skier, and a volunteer mountain bike trail builder in Chittenden County with the Fellowship of the Wheel. A Saint Michael’s varsity lacrosse player, 1988-1991, Robinson is now a parent volunteer for Essex Youth Lacrosse, serving as a coach and program administrator.
The Edmundite Catholic liberal arts college,www.smcvt.edu . Saint Michael’s provides education with a social conscience, producing graduates with the intellectual tools to lead successful, purposeful lives that will contribute to peace and justice in our world. Founded in 1904 by the Society of St. Edmund and headed by President John J. Neuhauser, Saint Michael’s College is located three miles from Burlington, Vermont, one of America’s top college towns. It is identified by the Princeton Review as one of the nations Best 371 Colleges, and is included in the 2011 Fiske Guide to Colleges. Saint Michael’s is one of only 280 colleges and universities nationwide, one of only 20 Catholic colleges, with a Phi Beta Kappa chapter. Saint Michael’s has 1,900 undergraduate students, some 500 graduate students and 100 international students. Saint Michael’s students and professors have received Rhodes, Woodrow Wilson, Pickering, Guggenheim, Fulbright, and other grants. The college is one of the nation’s top-100, Best Liberal Arts Colleges as listed in the 2011 U.S. News & World Report rankings.