August, 2005

Bill Cloyd ’90, assistant athletics director for development at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, has been named vice president for university advancement. In his current position at OSU, Cloyd created the strategic processes and implemented the $35 million fund-raising plan for the Big 10 university’s new Woody Hayes Athletic Center, the construction of its varsity indoor tennis facility and boathouse for its women’s crew team, and its softball stadium renovation.

“What you have in Bill Cloyd is great versatility,” said OSU Head Football Coach Jim Tressel. “Aside from his incredible talents, the thing that will serve him best is that he loves Wittenberg. It’s his home. I hate to lose him, but he is going to do a great job,” Tressel added.

Prior to his work with Tressel and the entire OSU athletics department, Cloyd served as the senior director of development for OSU’s Heart Center, where he devised and implemented strategic plans for major gifts ranging from $100,000 to $10 million. In addition, Cloyd collaborated with chief administrators and faculty members in the planning process. From 1998 to 2001, Cloyd was the director of development for OSU’s College of Mathematical & Physical Sciences, raising $22 million in cash and an additional $4 million in deferred commitments as part of the university’s $1.23 billion campus-wide campaign.

At Wittenberg, Cloyd will provide strategic direction and oversight of all advancement efforts, including setting fund-raising goals based on institutional priorities and supervising all senior staff in development, information resources, communications and constituency relations programs.

Cloyd succeeds Charles Dominick, who will retire later this year after 31 years of service.

From "Advancing Wittenberg," Wittenberg Magazine, Summer 2005.