
	Barbara&nbsp; Larson had been serving as vice president for administration and chief financial officer for Hillsborough Community College, in Tampa, Fla., a multi-campus that annually serves 20,000 full-time equivalent students. In that job, she developed the college&rsquo;s $212 million budget and oversaw financial and administrative functions and physical facilities. She had been there since 2006, and served as interim president of the college&#39;s SouthShore campus in 2009. Prior to her work at Hillsborough, Larson was vice president, administrative services and finance, at Lansing (Mich.) Community College; vice president for business and finance, Delhi, State University of New York and director of budget and purchasing for Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor, Mich. Larson earned a doctorate in education in 2012 from Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and a master&#39;s degree in 1983 in public policy and administration at the Robert M. LaFollette Center for Public Policy and Administration at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. She also holds a bachelor&#39;s degree in economics from Rutgers University in New Jersey. &nbsp;
