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CASE@Campus presents CASE members with the opportunity to offer topical, focused, issue-based trainings for their advancement staff, institutional and academic leaders, faculty, students, alumni groups, advisory boards, and trustees. This cost-effective learning opportunity relaunched in June 2024 with a new cohort of CASE Fellows.

The CASE Fellows are senior volunteers and subject matter experts who create spaces for dialogue and exchange about innovative best practices at a time and place convenient to your institution. Training typically occurs over the course of one to two days and can be delivered to both individuals and larger groups, hybrid or in person.

Trainings use a curriculum developed under the direction of CASE@Campus Director Holly M. Davis with input from CASE Opportunity and Inclusion Center and CASE Insights staff. The curriculum is integrated with the CASE Global Reporting Standards, is based on industry research, and can be customized to your institutional needs and circumstances.

Linda Durant, former CASE Vice President of Development and CASE@Campus instructor, says, “CASE@Campus trainings are unique as they offer a bespoke program tailored directly to the needs of the particular institution and its challenges. Participants are with their colleagues in a setting that is both familiar and comfortable, allowing for open and honest dialogue and discussions that often do not occur in a general session with professionals attending from other institutions.”

Plus, she adds, participants can apply information directly to their own work.

“[They] leave the sessions with an action plan and a tool kit designed to benefit their programs and add value to their institutional advancement priorities,” she says.

Training topics include:

• fundraising training for boards, deans, and academic leaders that includes aligning institutional resources for fundraising success;
• understanding and enhancing diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging in advancement;
• building a brand that resonates;
• developing effective management structures at independent schools;
• using data to strengthen operations based on the CASE Insights on Alumni Engagement; and more.

The new cohort of CASE Fellows includes:

• Johnny Cruz, Associate Vice Chancellor & Chief Communications and Marketing Officer, University of California, Riverside, U.S.
• Christine Fairchild, former Director of Alumni Relations, University of Oxford, U.K.
• J.T. Forbes, President, Indiana University Foundation, U.S.
• Karen McQuigge, Director, Alumni Engagement, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada
• Barbara Miles, former Vice President (Advancement), Australian National University
• Karl Miller Lugo, Vice President for Advancement and Alumni Engagement, The University of Texas at San Antonio, U.S.
• Sarah Morris, Associate Vice Chancellor for Advancement, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, U.S.
• Emily Robin, Associate Dean for Advancement, London Business School, U.K.
• Fardin Sanai, Vice President for University Advancement, University at Albany, New York, U.S.
• Kristina Schaefer, former Senior Philanthropic Advisor and Senior Associate Dean for Global Programs, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, U.S.
• Jeffrey Schoenherr, Associate Vice President of Medicine and Health Sciences Development, West Virginia University, U.S.
• Greg Spencer, Deputy Director of Development & Head of Fundraising, Cardiff University, U.K.
• Cassie Warman, former Vice President of University Advancement, Pacific University, Forest Grove, Oregon, U.S.

Learn more about CASE@Campus here.