Veritas, Vol. 49, No. 01, September 2006

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YEAR; MOMENTUM CONTINUES
The University of Miami had the most successful fundraising period in its history in fiscal year 2006, raising nearly $162 million and adding to the $1 billion-plus total of its Momentum campaign.
Total private cash, gifts, and grants reached $161.6 million, a 19.1 percent increase over last year’s total of $135.7 million and an 87.5 percent increase in fundraising from only four years ago.
“This tremendous success is a collective effort from our president to our Board of Trustees, faculty, staff, students, and volunteers, all who honor the University of Miami with their donations large and small,” says Vice President for University Advancement Sergio M.
Gonzalez. “The University still has more great heights to reach, and our efforts will continue.”
In January UM announced it had reached the $1 billion mark in its Momentum campaign 18 months ahead of schedule and that it would extend its goal by $250 million and conclude at the end of 2007. To date, the University has raised more than $1.18 billion as part of the campaign.
This year’s fundraising totals include increases in several key categories. Among the largest gains reported:
• Endowment gifts totaled more than $29.9 million, an increase of 128.2 percent.
• Giving for facilities and equipment increased by more than 124.6 percent, reaching $18.1 million.
• Corporate giving totaled $16.9 million, an increase of 19.6 percent.
• Trustee giving reached $45.1 million, a 61 percent rise.
• Total support for the Miller School of Medicine reached $93.3 million, a 14.1 percent increase.
• Annual Fund giving was up almost 7 percent, totaling $19.2 million. Alumni fundraising also experienced a record year, as total alumni giving reached $15.9 million, a 17.2 percent increase from last year. Alumni participation has grown from 12 percent five years ago to 18 percent this year.
Natoli, Ugalde, and Donelan named to key positions
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University fills prominent leadership roles
respected newspaper publisher from Philadelphia, a University of Miami School of Law alumna who has served as President Donna E. Shalalas chief of staff, and an executive who built one of the nation’s most respected health systems into a worldwide leader in patient care have been named to three of the most prominent positions in the University of Miami’s leadership structure.
The appointments come at an ideal time—the start of a new academic year—and fill key leadership roles from which some of the University’s longest-serving administrators announced their retirements after years of service.
The most recent of the three appointments is Joe Natoli, publisher of Philadelphia Newspapers, LLC, who has been named UM’s senior vice president for business and finance and chief financial officer.
Natoli, who returns to South Florida after impressive leadership positions in San Jose and Philadelphia, will assume his new post in mid-September. He will manage the functions of accounting and finance, human resources and employee benefits, information technology, procurement, risk management, real estate, planning and construction, buildings and grounds, and operations and maintenance. He will also join the governmental relations team and will eventually teach a course in the School of Communication.
President Shalala says the University’s business and finance operations will benefit greatly from Natoli’s problem-solving skills.
As publisher of Philadelphia Newspapers for the past two years, Natoli has been responsible for The Philadelphia Inquirer, the Philadelphia Daily News, Philly.com, Broad Street Community Newspapers, and other subsidiary operations.
Before joining Philadelphia Newspapers, he served as president and publisher of the San Jose Mercury News, then part of the Knight Ridder chain (recently acquired by The McClatchy Company). He joined Knight Ridder, then headquartered in Miami, in 1976 as a staff accountant and spent more than three years on the corporate internal audit staff, performing financial and operational audits at the chain’s newspapers throughout the country.
It was at the Miami Herald Publishing Company (MHPC) that he worked his way up through the finance and operations divisions during the 1980s, serving in roles including con-
Taking the reins: Joe Natoli brings a wealth of experience to his role as new senior vice president for business and finance and chief financial officer.
trailer and vice president of operations. He was named general manager of MHPC in 1993 and president one year later—overseeing all business operations of The Miami Herald, El Nuevo Herald, and subsidiary operations— until moving to San Jose in 2001.
“Joe Natoli was a well-respected civic leader in our community for many years, and we’re delighted to recruit him back to South Florida,” says President Shalala.
Aileen M. Ugalde is the University’s new vice president, general counsel, and secretary to the Board of Trustees, succeeding Bob Blake, who is retiring after a distinguished 12-year career at UM.
As UM’s chief legal officer, Ugalde will be responsible for management of all legal issues, leading a staff that includes nine attorneys, and managing outside counsel with whom the University contracts. She will also serve as the secretary to the Board of Trustees, acting as the primary liaison between the board and the University, and will oversee a staff that coordinates the day-to-day activities of the board as well as the Office of Internal Audits.
Ugalde was formerly vice president for government affairs for the University and served as President Shalalas chief of staff. While directing the Office of the President’s activities, she also led the University’s efforts in hosting the 2004 Presidential Debate on campus. She first joined the University in 1994 as an assistant general counsel, was promoted to associate general counsel in 1998, and served as executive director of the
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Prilleltensky to lead School of Education
An Argentine-born scholar with an extensive academic background in child, family, and community well-being is the new dean of the University of Miami’s School of Education.
Isaac Prilleltensky previously served as professor of human and organizational development and director of the Ph.D. program in community research and action at Vanderbilt University’s prestigious Peabody College.
He comes to the University of Miami with a stellar academic and research record and background that make him “a great fit for the expertise within the School of Education and the needs of our local community,” says Executive Vice President and Provost Thomas J. LeBlanc.
Prilleltensky received his master’s degree in clinical child psychology from Tel Aviv University in 1983 and his Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Manitoba in 1989. While working for eight years as a school psycholo-
New dean: Prilleltensky comes to the University of Miami with a stellar academic record.
gist, he discovered the social origins of child and family problems and soon became a community psychologist. He Continued on page 3