URBANA — Legendary Illinois wheelchair-racing champion Jean Driscoll is leaving the university where she studied, raced and worked over the past three decades to take a new development position at North Carolina State University.
Driscoll will be executive director of development for the College of Design at North Carolina State in Raleigh, beginning Nov. 27.
Driscoll, who dominated wheelchair racing in the 1990s, has been senior director of development for the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences for three years. Before that, she was in a fundraising position with the College of Applied Health Sciences for more than eight years.