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URSINUS WELCOMES JILL LEAUBER MARSTELLER 1978 AS SR. VICE PRESIDENT FOR ADVANCEMENT
Ursinus College is pleased to welcome new Senior Vice President for Advancement Jill Leauber Marsteller, who has more than 20 years of successful fundraising experience for major educational institutions in Pennsylvania. Marsteller, a 1978 alumna of Ursinus College, joins the selective liberal arts college administration after serving as Senior Vice President and Chief Development Officer at Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia, where she oversaw the successful completion of a $100 million fundraising effort and led several new and effective marketing and communications initiatives.
Marsteller also served as Vice President for University Advancement at Lehigh University, and in various positions at Lehigh from 1995 to 2000, and has been a consultant to various organizations. She returns to Ursinus, where she began her advancement career in the Ursinus Development Office in the late 1980s and early 1990s. During that same period she served as an adjunct lecturer in the Ursinus English department. Marsteller received her bachelor’s degree from Ursinus in 1978, graduating cum laude with honors in English. She received her master’s degree in English from Villanova University in 1980.
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As leader and chief strategist of Haverford’s most ambitious campaign in the college’s history, she led an effort that doubled annual giving, while significantly increasing alumni participation, and through philanthropy enabled the creation of three new integrated academic centers, and was responsible for developing new faculty initiatives, overseeing a branding initiative which enhanced visibility, energizing and increasing alumni activity and events and establishing the first comprehensive Parents’ Program at the College.
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Her achievements in higher education include serving in 2007 as President of Cedar Crest College in Allentown, Pa., and as Vice President of Institutional Advancement for eight years at Haverford College. At Haverford, Marsteller contributed to the most dynamic period of programmatic growth in Haverford’s history, leading a successful $200 million capital campaign, revamping many philanthropic programs and initiating the first comprehensive international efforts of the college.
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“I was delighted to see an Ursinus alumna become one of the half-dozen most accomplished collegiate fundraisers and managers in the country,” said President John Strassburger. “She knows us well and in finishing a consultancy here already is accelerating our forward progress. Equally important, her passion for our approach to liberal education—her enthusiasm for our unvarnished focus on fostering student achievement —means she will be another powerful voice on our behalf with constituencies all around the country.”