Jon Dellandrea, U of T Vice President and Chief Advancement Officer, will be moving to a similar position at the University of Oxford next October, U of T recently announced.
Dellandrea will be doing a similar job with a somewhat grander title: “pro-vice-chancellor development and external relations.” Dellandrea has been a VP at U of T for 11 years, and helped to manage U of T’s record-breaking fundraising effort which raised more than $1 billion in about eight years.
“It has been an enormous privilege to serve at one of North America’s premier universities,” Dellandrea said in a press release. “Now, this move to Oxford offers a singular opportunity to serve one of Europe’s finest institutions.”
U of T acting president Frank Iacobucci said that Dellandrea had “served the University of Toronto with passion, intensity, and enormous success.”
The university is now conducting a search for a replacement. Dellandrea will remain in his current post until the end of June 2005.
-GFS
