Anna Wallace
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CASE Europe
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CASE
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For Immediate Release
June 19, 2012

CASE Europe Board Appoints New Trustees

LONDON—The CASE Europe board has appointed four new trustees who will serve a three-year term of office on 1 July 2012. The board, chaired by Vice Chancellor of the University of Bristol Eric Thomas, appointed the trustees in May during a meeting held in Tilburg, the Netherlands.

The four trustees, along with the 14 existing trustees, will provide volunteer leadership for CASE members in the United Kingdom and continental Europe.

The new trustees will serve from July 2012 until July 2015. They are:

• Claire Brown, director, student recruitment and admissions, The University of Liverpool
• Peter Brunner, director, ETH Alumni Association, ETH Zurich
• David Greenaway, vice-chancellor, University of Nottingham
• Lesley Humphreys, development director, Christ's Hospital School

Current trustee, Melvyn Keen, deputy vice-chancellor, Finance and External Relations, Middlesex University, was re-appointed to serve another three-year term.

Kate Hunter, executive director, CASE Europe, said CASE is delighted to welcome its new trustees, whose expertise reflects CASE Europe's growing membership base.

"Our organisation continues to grow as educational institutions seek trusted training, resources, insight and advocacy to navigate their way through the economic, political and social environment they operate in," she said. "With our trustees' support, CASE Europe equips marketing, fundraising, alumni relations and communications professionals, and consequently their institutions, with the skills and knowledge to tackle challenges and opportunities head-on and prosper."

The following trustees come to the end of their terms of service on 30 June 2012: 

• Peter Agar, director of development and alumni relations, University of Cambridge
• Tricia King, pro-vice-master, student experience and director of external relations, Birkbeck, University of London
• Shirley Pearce, vice-chancellor and president, Loughborough University

"We would like to thank these members of the board for their vision, leadership and commitment to CASE Europe during their term," Hunter said. "Their contribution has been considerable, and CASE Europe is a better organisation because of them."

About CASE

The Council for Advancement and Support of Education is a professional association serving educational institutions and the advancement professionals who work on their behalf in alumni relations, communications, development, marketing and allied areas.

CASE was founded in 1974 and maintains headquarters in Washington, D.C., with offices in London (CASE Europe, 1994), Singapore (CASE Asia-Pacific, 2007) and Mexico City (CASE América Latina, 2011).

Today, CASE’s membership includes more than 3,600 colleges and universities, primary and secondary independent and international schools, and nonprofit organizations in 76 countries around the globe. This makes CASE one of the world’s largest nonprofit educational associations in terms of institutional membership. CASE serves more than 70,000 advancement professionals on the staffs of its member institutions and has more than 17,000 professional members on its roster.

To fulfill their missions and to meet both individual and societal needs, colleges, universities and independent schools rely on—and therefore must foster—the good will, active involvement, informed advocacy and enduring support of alumni, donors, prospective students, parents, government officials, community leaders, corporate executives, foundation officers and other external constituencies.

CASE helps its members build stronger relationships with all of these constituencies by providing relevant research, supporting growth in the profession and fostering support of education. CASE also offers a variety of advancement products and services, provides standards and an ethical framework for the profession and works with other organizations to respond to public issues of concern while promoting the importance of education worldwide.

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