Just months after losing its top financial officer, Ohio University will wave goodbye to another top budget planner this summer.
Rebecca Vazquez-Skillings, OU's assistant vice president for budget planning and analysis since 2007, will become Otterbein College's vice president for business affairs.
Vazquez-Skillings is not the first OU administrator to leave Athens for Otterbein, a private liberal arts college in Westerville, Ohio, with about 3,100 students and 260 faculty. Last January, then-Executive Vice President and Provost Kathy Krendl announced she was leaving OU to become Otterbein's president
Otterbein is excited to welcome Rebecca to our executive team
Krendl said in a statement. She brings a superior level of budgeting from her previous positions and has a strong knowledge of higher education financial needs.
The announcement of Vazquez-Skillings' upcoming departure further rocks the leadership of OU's Office of Finance and Administration.
Senior Vice President for Finance and Administration Bill Decatur left in January for a similar position at the Rhode Island School of Design. A national search for Decatur's replacement was scrapped and restarted after two of three finalists withdrew their applications. Administrators say it is unlikely to a replacement will be named by July 1, the beginning of the next fiscal year.
Skillings, who earned $111,815 this year, was the university's primary budget planner and served on the influential Budget Planning Council, an advisory group that makes budget recommendations to President Roderick McDavis.
Prior to coming to OU, Vazquez-Skillings worked in Ohio's Office of Budget and Management, the governor's office and the Ohio Department of Human Services, Budget and Control in various positions.
A Beachwood, Ohio native, Vazquez-Skillings earned her bachelor's degree from Kenyon College in 1993 and her master's degree in public administration from Ohio State University in 1996.
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