President and Vice Chancellor
Carleton University

Carleton’s new President will be an engaged partner with University Advancement and an active champion and leader of the university’s dynamic, sector-leading fundraising, and community partnership strategies.

Some highlights of University Advancement:

• The Leadership Team has more than 100 collective years of demonstrated success leading Carleton’s Advancement office, and decades of proven results at other universities and organizations.

• Engagement and outreach practices at Carleton are digital first, fiscally responsible and purpose based, eschewing traditional high investment activity and events in favour of personal connection, and demonstrated affinity.

• A competitive, progressive “purpose-based” advancement model invites donors to give not just to Carleton but through Carleton—investing in higher education to address societal challenges. This philosophy underpins an annual $40M revenue objective and helps advance the entire university’s community engagement goals.

• In 2019, Carleton closed the $300-million Collaborate Campaign—the largest successfully completed fundraising campaign in Ottawa’s history.

• Today, University Advancement is in the preliminary planning phase of a follow-up campaign to advance the purpose-based goals of the Strategic Integrated Plan.

• In partnership with the Office of the Vice-President (Research and International), University Advancement leads the Holistic Integrated Partnerships program - a campus collaboration (unique to Carleton) that helps industry partners address business challenges while creating experiential learning opportunities for our students and researchers. 

• The Advancement team are thought leaders and creators of best practices in the sector, engaging and presenting regularly at national and international associations such as the Canadian Council for the Advancement of Education, the Council for Advancement and Support for Education, the Association of Fundraising Professionals, and others.

• The team is resilient and adaptable, and has continued to deliver on its mandate and revenue goals despite the challenges of the pandemic, the hybrid work transformation, labour challenges, and societal economic pressures in recent years.