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Conference Presenters
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Debra S. Farar
 During
her tenure as a CSU trustee, Dr. Debra S. Farar has served
as a board member and vice chair and is currently chair.
Farar’s background as an educational advisor, consultant,
teacher and CSU Northridge alumna has prepared her to
weigh the many decisions facing the CSU Board of Trustees.
She presently serves as a board member of the U.S. Department
of Education’s Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary
Education (FIPSE). Formerly, Farar was senior advisor
for education policy in the state of California’s
Office of the Lieutenant Governor. |
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Charles Reed
Dr. Charles Reed is chancellor of the 23-campus CSU system,
the country’s largest university system with more
than 400,000 students. As chancellor, he provides leadership
to 44,000 faculty and staff and has led efforts to improve
access to the CSU, build excellence in academic programs
and create stronger partnerships with K-12 schools. Before
joining the CSU, Reed served as chancellor of the State
University System of Florida, and earlier, as chief of
staff and deputy chief of staff to the governor of Florida.
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Louis Caldera
 As
vice chancellor for University Advancement of the 23-campus
CSU system, Louis Caldera’s responsibilities include
systemwide fundraising and development programs, legislative
affairs, community relations, alumni affairs, public affairs
and communications. Before his tenure at the CSU, Caldera
held two appointed posts with the Clinton administration:
Secretary of the Army (1998-2001) and Managing Director
and Chief Operating Officer of the Corporation for National
and Community Service (1997-1998). Prior to that, Caldera
served in the California State Assembly from 1992 to 1997,
representing the 46th district in and around downtown
Los Angeles. |
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Peter V. Ueberroth
Peter serves as the Managing Director of Contrarian Group,
Inc., an investment and management company. The group
invests in small and medium size companies and takes a
management role providing strategic guidance. In July
of 1999, Peter successfully orchestrated the purchase
of the Pebble Beach Company; bringing it back to United
States ownership after years of foreign ownership. He
now serves as Owner and Co-Chairman of the Pebble Beach
Company. Peter also serves as the Chairman of the Board
of Ambassadors International (AMIE) and is a member of
the board of directors of The Coca-Cola Company, Hilton
Hotels Corporation and the Irvine Company. From 1984 to
1989 Peter served as the sixth Commissioner of Major League
Baseball. From 1980 to 1984, Peter served as President
of the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee (LAOOC),
the private non-profit organization responsible for staging
and operating the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games. Peter
founded First Travel Corporation in 1962. When he sold
the company in 1980, it was the second largest travel
business in North America with over 300 wholly owned retail
travel agencies. |
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Vance T. Peterson
Currently president of the Council for Advancement and
Support of Education (CASE), Vance Peterson is the former
president of Sierra Nevada College where he led efforts
to develop a five-year strategic plan and strengthen the
institution’s financial base and fundraising program.
Peterson also served as vice president for institutional
advancement at Occidental College (1989-1996) where he
developed and implemented a $70 million, five-year fundraising
campaign and established the college’s first organized
alumni presence on the World Wide Web. Previously, Petersen
directed the capital campaign of the University of California,
Los Angeles (1982-1984) and served as the university’s
associate provost of the College of Letters and Sciences
and associate director of university development. |
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Carol Harter
Since 1995, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, President
Carol C. Harter has helped to raise more than $171 million
in private gifts, with another $50 million in pledges
and $95 million in estate and trust expectancies, including
an endowed chair in creative writing currently held by
Nevada’s first Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka. Under
Dr. Harter’s leadership, UNLV has created 72 new
degree programs that address Nevada’s need for highly
trained professionals and also has built 15 new campus
buildings including the state-of-the-art Lied Library.
In addition, Harter has been instrumental in the creation
of the William S. Boyd School of Law, the School of Architecture
and the School of Dentistry—the first professional
law, architecture and dentistry schools in Nevada. |
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Sheldon Caplis
Sheldon Caplis is vice president for institutional advancement
at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
where he is responsible for fundraising, alumni relations,
marketing and public relations. Prior to joining UMBC,
Caplis served at the University of Baltimore as vice president
for development before becoming vice president for institutional
advancement, while simultaneously serving a two-decade
tenure as an adjunct associate professor in the Merrick
School of Business. He is accredited as a certified fund
raising executive and has given fundraising lectures for
CASE and the National Society for Fund Raising Executives,
as well as for the Goucher College fundraising certificate
program. |
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Gary L. Cardaronella
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Gary L. Cardaronella is a partner in Cardaronella Stirling
Associates, a fundraising consulting firm located in Fresno,
California. Cardaronella has served as vice president
for development and university relations at Drexel University
where he helped the university double its fundraising.
At the University of Pennsylvania, where he played a major
role in the university's $1.2 billion capital campaign,
Cardaronella served as director of development for the
School of Engineering and Applied Science, executive director
of development for the University Medical Center, and
director of corporate and foundation relations. |
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Young Dawkins
 As
president of the University of New Hampshire Foundation,
Young Dawkins recently led the foundation’s capital
campaign, The Next Horizon: the Campaign for the University
of New Hampshire, to surpass its $100 million goal more
than two years ahead of schedule. Formerly vice president
for development at Oberlin College, Dawkins was the principal
architect of the college’s $165 million capital
campaign. Dawkins began his career as a major gift officer
and director at Dartmouth College, his alma mater, where
he was credited with securing a $30 million gift to construct
a library. He was a 1998 recipient of the CASE Steuben
Apple Award for Teaching Excellence. |
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Elizabeth (Betsy) A. Flanagan
 Elizabeth
A. Flanagan is the vice president for development and
university relations at Virginia Polytechnic Institute
and State University and also serves as an executive vice
president for the Virginia Tech Foundation, Inc. Before
joining Virginia Tech, Flanagan was the assistant vice
president for development and director of individual major
and planned gifts for the University of Virginia during
its $1.4 billion capital campaign. Flanagan also was a
faculty member at both the University of Virginia and
the Medical College of Virginia where she taught gerontology
and adult education for 19 years. |
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Alexander Gonzalez
 Under
President Gonzalez’s leadership, CSU San Marcos
had its best fundraising year in 2001-2002, raising $6.3
million and exceeding its goal by more than 25 percent.
Top gifts included a $2.6 million athletic scholarship
endowment, a $1 million library gift and a $500,000 gift
for business college programs. Dr. Gonzalez served as
interim president of CSU San Marcos in 1997, before being
appointed president in 1998. Since his tenure began, Gonzalez
has enhanced the 12-year-old university’s relations
with the off-campus community and friends in the north
San Diego region. He previously served as provost and
vice president of academic affairs at CSU Fresno. Dr.
Gonzalez has recently been named as the new President
of CSU Sacramento. |
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Donald R. Gray
As vice president at the University of Wisconsin Foundation,
Donald R. Gray is responsible for guiding the university’s
$1.2 billion Create the Future campaign. Previously, he
oversaw development programs for many of the University
of Wisconsin’s schools and colleges, including medicine,
law, business, nursing, veterinary medicine, pharmacy,
the graduate school and the hospital. Gray has been a
frequent speaker for CASE and served on the faculty or
chaired national conferences focusing on endowment management,
advancement strategies and development for deans. Gray
was recognized for his service to the profession by the
Institute for Charitable Giving when he was awarded their
1997 Major Gift Laureate for Lifetime Achievement. |
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Charles (Chuck) B. Knapp
 Charles
B. Knapp is the partner in charge of higher education
for Heidrick and Struggles, an international executive
search firm, and also serves as a facilitator for the
Association of Governing Boards (AGB). Knapp is the former
president of the University of Georgia and of the Aspen
Institute, an international educational institution dedicated
to cultivating leadership skills. Serving as both president
and professor of economics at the University of Georgia,
Knapp’s tenure was marked by raised academic standards,
an ambitious construction program, faculty and staff salary
increases, and successful fundraising. Previously, Knapp
was the executive vice president of Tulane University.
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Jolene Koester
 Since
her appointment as president of CSU Northridge in 2000,
President Koester has led the university to achieve an
all-time fundraising high of $26 million in 2001-2002,
an 81 percent increase over 2000-2001. Part of that fundraising
success was a $7 million endowment pledge from the Eisner
Foundation—the largest individual/family foundation
gift in CSU Northridge history. Koester has also overseen
the completion of the university’s recovery from
the 1994 Northridge earthquake, which involved $400 million
in reconstruction. Koester formerly served as provost
and vice president for academic affairs and professor
of communication studies at CSU Sacramento, a post she
held since 1993. |
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Andrew (Andy) J. Policano
Economist Andrew J. Policano recently retired from his
position as dean of the University of Wisconsin School
of Business. During his 10-year term, the business school’s
endowment increased ten-fold to more than $100 million,
two new buildings heavily funded from private sources
were opened, and the number of endowed chairs, professorships,
fellowships and scholarships substantially increased.
In addition, the School of Business was recognized among
the best facilities in the country. Policano has been
consistently rated one of the top teachers in the University
of Wisconsin’s MBA program and is often a featured
speaker both on campus and at national conventions. |
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Stephen Weber
 Under
the guidance of President Weber, San Diego State University
set a CSU record in 2001-2002, raising a milestone $52.7
million in gifts and private grants. This represented
a 25 percent increase in philanthropic contributions over
the previous fiscal year, and exceeded Dr. Weber’s
$45.3 million goal by 17 percent. Since beginning his
tenure at San Diego State in 1996, Weber has been committed
to advancement, leading fundraising efforts that have
resulted in a 64 percent increase in private giving since
1998-1999. Weber previously was the interim provost of
the State University of New York and, prior to that, president
of SUNY College at Oswego for eight years. |
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John D. Welty
 Since
his appointment as president of CSU Fresno in 1991, President
Welty has spearheaded a dramatic increase in support for
the university, with private fundraising alone increasing
from $10.8 million in 1991-1992 to $30.9 million in 2001-2002.
(CSU Fresno exceeded its 2001-2002 fundraising goal by
$1.3 million.) In addition, Welty has led fundraising
efforts for the largest privately financed project in
the history of the CSU, the Save Mart Center arena. In
2001-2002 nearly $8 million was raised for the 16,000-seat
arena, bringing the project total to just over $100 million.
Prior to CSU Fresno, Welty was president and interim president
at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. |
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Douglas M. Wilson
 Douglas
M. Wilson is the executive director of the Pulaski County
Community Foundation and also serves as a member of the
foundation consulting commission for the Association of
Governing Boards (AGB) while facilitating with AGB’s
Board Education Services. Previously, Wilson was executive
director of the Office of Corporate and Foundation Relations
of the Indiana University Foundation and coordinated all
corporate and foundation fundraising. He also served as
vice president for university relations and external affairs
and was responsible for the development, integration and
coordination of constituent communication. He is the founding
president of the Indiana University Advanced Research
and Technology Institute. |
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Last Updated:
June 21, 2007
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