About the Honoree

At Boston University, Scott Nichols brought a new and powerful focus to expanding the institution’s advancement efforts beyond the United States. As part of that effort, he launched several structural innovations to support global outreach, including the International Advisory Board. Convened a decade ago, this group has collectively contributed 14 percent of the university’s current campaign. Scott has also been a strong advocate for CASE’s international efforts and for the internationalization of the advancement profession, serving on the CASE Board of Trustees, the Europe Board of Trustees and as a recurring faculty member of the CASE Conference on International Advancement, among other things.

“CASE and its membership, in all parts of the world, owe a great deal of the vibrancy of our professional organization to the leadership and tireless efforts of Scott Nichols. We are represented by a far more successful and influential organization on the world stage because of his decades of commitment to serving the global advancement profession,” said Bill Walker, a former CASE trustee, staff member and long-time volunteer.

About the Award

The John Lippincott Award for Global Advancement and Support of Education honors an individual at a CASE member institution who has made significant contributions to CASE and to building and growing the advancement profession globally. The award is named in honor of CASE's longest serving president, John Lippincott, who worked tirelessly with volunteer leadership and staff to expand CASE's global influence and stature.