Denis A. Collet, assistant director of human resources for the Harvard Business School, Boston, joined the Saint Michael's College board of trustees, and attended meetings on campus Dec. 5 and 6. Collet is the immediate past president of the Saint Michael's College alumni board of directors, and a long-time volunteer for his alma mater. He earned a bachelor's degree in English from Saint Michael's in 1985.
"Saint Michael's instilled in me the importance of community and responsibility to give back," Collet said. "My service to the college as president of the alumni association and now as a trustee is my small way of giving back."
Denis Collet's human resources background started with work as an employment consultant (1989 to 1993) and later as a client services manager (1993 to 1995), both for John Hancock Financial Services, Boston. He worked in employment training for Boston University from 1995 to 1997, and as senior HR generalist for Evergreen Funds, Boston, from 1997 to 1999, following which he joined the Harvard Business School.
Mr. Collet serves on a number of volunteer committees in human resources at Harvard, as well as serving as a member of the Winchester, Mass., Town Meeting, and of St. Mary's Church. He and his wife Becky reside in Winchester with their daughter, Jacqueline, age 11.
Saint Michael's College, founded in 1904 by the Society of St. Edmund and headed by President John J. Neuhauser, is identified by the Princeton Review as one of the nation's Best 368 Colleges. A liberal arts, residential, Catholic college, Saint Michael's is located just outside of Burlington, Vermont, one of America's top college towns and less than two hours from Montreal. As one of only 270 institutions nationwide with a prestigious Phi Beta Kappa chapter on campus, Saint Michael's has 2,000 full-time undergraduate students, some 500 graduate students and 200 international students. In recent years Saint Michael's students and professors have received Rhodes, Woodrow Wilson, Guggenheim, Fulbright, National Science Foundation and other grants, and Saint Michael's professors have been named Vermont Professor of the Year in four of the last eight years. The college is currently listed as one of the nation's Best Liberal Arts Colleges in the 2009 U.S. News & World Report rankings.