Concordia University. Office of University Advancement

The Office of University Advancement was primarily responsible for the University’s fundraising activities, from 1989 to 2000. Following the disappearance of the Development Office in 1986 and the departure of Ketchum Inc. - a consulting firm hired to manage the final phase of the Concordia five-year $25-million Capital Campaign Building Together -, the position of Director of University Advancement and Associate Vice-Rector, Institutional Relations was created in the Spring of 1988. Brian Selwood became acting Director of Advancement until Christopher Hyde’s appointment to the new position on July 1, 1989. Christopher Hyde left the University at the end of 1999. During his mandate, the Annual Giving Campaign was revived and Concordia lunched its second capital campaign in the Fall of 1997, the Campaign for a New Millenium. In accordance to the final report of the Advancement and Alumni Task Force (October 12, 1999), the offices of Alumni Affairs and University Advancement were organizationally and geographically consolidated in 2000. Both units moved to the fifth floor of the Faubourg building and became one unit: Advancement and Alumni Relations (AAR).

Created on 2016-08-30