The new dean of Villanova University’s School of Business has only held the position since August, but Wen Mao is tapping into the momentum underway at the college, writes Ryan Mulligan for Philadelphia Business Journal.

Villanova just completed a $760 million fundraising campaign, so she will be working to attract donors to the business school in her first year.

Donor money that comes in will go toward hiring more faculty in endowed positions and funding scholarships to make the university’s nearly $64,000 undergraduate tuition more affordable.

Mao has been on Villanova’s faculty since 1996 and has chaired the economics department, served as associate dean of faculty, and as vice dean of the business school.

She succeeds Joyce E. Russell, who served as business school dean for seven years before stepping down in May.

Mao is responsible for more than 3,300 graduate and undergraduate students in seven majors, along with 124 full-time faculty members.

“Villanova has really transformed in the past three decades. It’s an honor and a privilege to have a front-row seat, really watch from the inside and [see] how that transition happened, just in front of your eyes,” she said.

Read more of School of Business dean Wen Mao’s plans for the school in the Philadelphia Business Journal.