Ohio State hires accomplished fundraiser
COLUMBUS (AP) — Ohio State University has hired a new chief fundraiser who helped two other large schools raise more than $3 billion each.
The Columbus Dispatch reports that 55-year-old Michael Eicher will join OSU in Columbus on Nov. 1. He’s senior vice president for external affairs and development at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
Eicher oversaw the tail-end of a fundraising campaign at Johns Hopkins that brought in more than $3.7 billion. Before that, he was vice chancellor at UCLA, where he designed and led a $3 billion campaign that ended in 2005.
Eicher will earn $700,000 a year as OSU’s senior vice president of advancement, making him the eighth-highest paid employee at the school.