Quinnipiac University appoints Fairfield resident as budget manager

Stephen Summers, of Fairfield, has been appointed budget manager at Quinnipiac University.

In his new position, Summers will oversee the development, support and expansion of the university’s annual operating budget and long-range forecasts. He will play a critical role in meeting with stakeholders to develop and maintain reports to support budget-related decision making at all levels of the university’s leadership.

“I am very excited to join Quinnipiac University and the newly created office of budget and financial planning,” Summers said. “I look forward to becoming part of the Quinnipiac community and contributing to the financial goals of the university.”

Before coming to Quinnipiac, Summers worked at Charter Communications, Inc. as manager of business planning. He is a certified public accountant who earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration from State University of New York at Buffalo.

Quinnipiac is a private, coeducational, nonsectarian institution located 90 minutes north of New York City and two hours from Boston. The university enrolls 6,400 full-time undergraduate and 2,300 graduate students in 58 undergraduate and more than 20 graduate programs of study in its School of Business and Engineering, School of Communications, School of Education, School of Health Sciences, School of Law, Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine, School of Nursing and College of Arts and Sciences. Quinnipiac consistently ranks among the top regional universities in the North in U.S. News & World Report’s America’s Best Colleges issue. The 2014 issue of U.S. News & World Report’s America’s Best Colleges named Quinnipiac as the top up-and-coming school with master’s programs in the Northern Region. Quinnipiac also is recognized in Princeton Review’s “The Best 377 Colleges.” The Chronicle of Higher Education has named Quinnipiac among the “Great Colleges to Work For.” For more information, please visit www.quinnipiac.edu. Connect with Quinnipiac on Facebook at www.facebook.com/quinnipiacuniversity and follow Quinnipiac on Twitter @QuinnipiacU.