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Feb. 14, 2006
Volume 53, No. 22
 

EMU selects new vice president for University advancement

Darryl Sczepanski, vice president for advancement at Kettering University, was selected to be Eastern Michigan University's next vice president for university advancement and the executive director of the EMU Foundation. EMU President John Fallon made the announcement Feb. 9.

Sczepanski fills a position vacated when Stuart Starner left the University to accept a fundraising position in Texas. Tom Stevick has served as interim vice president for advancement and interim executive director since Jan. 8, 2005.

Darryl Sczepanski

Sczepanski

"I am very excited to have Darryl join our staff. He has a proven track record of success and the skills and vision to move the University's advancement efforts forward," Fallon said.

Sczepanski has more than 30 years of experience in capital campaign planning and management, major gift fund raising and alumni relations. He started his career at Sheldon Jackson College in Sitka, Alaska, as director of college relations and has served in a variety of advancement positions including: news bureau director at Michigan Technological University; director of university relations at the University of Minnesota-Duluth; a college-based fund raiser at the University of Colorado-Boulder; alumni and development director at Marquette University, and associate vice president for development at Illinois Institute of Technology.

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