Alyssa M. Wilcox, senior vice president and chief campaign planning officer at Purdue University, has been named vice president for development and alumni relations at Penn State, effective Jan. 13. 
Alyssa M. Wilcox
The vice president for development and alumni relations reports directly to the president and is charged with strategically leading the University’s advancement with frontline fundraising, alumni relations, event planning, major gift cultivation, corporate and foundation relations, and more. In this role, Wilcox will manage a budget of more than $67 million and lead nearly 600 full-time professional staff members in the Penn State Alumni Association and the Office of University Development, engaging with the University’s more than 775,000 living alumni and friends to further Penn State’s land-grant mission.
Wilcox earned a master of business administration degree, with a concentration in marketing, from the University of Connecticut, and a bachelor of arts degree from Saint Mary’s College in Notre Dame, Indiana
