Feb 25, 2011 - Claremont, Calif. -

Dan Macaluso, a veteran of higher education and the development field, has been chosen to serve as the vice president for college advancement at Harvey Mudd College (HMC).

Macaluso begins his duties March 1, 2011, succeeding Vice President for College Advancement Marc Archambault. Macaluso will join President Maria Klawe in guiding HMC as the College prepares for a capital campaign and construction of a new teaching and learning center.

"I am extremely excited about the prospect of working closely with Dan to raise the resources and visibility needed to achieve our strategic vision," said President Maria Klawe.

Macaluso brings to this position more than 22 years of higher education development and alumni relations experience. Over his career, he has worked with three leading universities—Penn State, the University of Texas at Austin, and Emory University in Atlanta—and was engaged with four successful comprehensive campaigns that have all significantly advanced the work of each university.

"I am thrilled to be joining the Harvey Mudd Community and can hardly wait to be fully underway," said Macaluso. "My experience throughout this interview process has shown me that what I read and heard about the strength and character of this special place and its amazing people is real and genuine. There is much to be accomplished and much work ahead, but the Advancement team has already built a strong foundation that I recognize and appreciate. Because of everyone's hard work and commitment, we are poised to accomplish great things that will advance even further the reputation, quality, awareness and impact of Harvey Mudd College. I am honored to have been asked to be the one to help lead us forward."

Macaluso began his career in development as a fundraiser at his alma mater, Penn State University. After serving in three colleges over 10 years and directing development and alumni relations for two of them—Communications and Agricultural Sciences—Macaluso joined the University of Texas at Austin’s Resource Development leadership team as UT was beginning its first comprehensive campaign, proposed at $1 billion. As assistant and, later, associate vice president, he was charged with the direct management of all major and planned giving, annual giving, and corporate/foundation giving, both centrally and in the units, while creating and implementing new university-wide policies, procedures, performance metrics, activity reports and fundraising planning activities to support the work of an increasingly more professional and effective fundraising team.

Following UT’s successful completion of its campaign, Macaluso moved to Atlanta for a leadership position in development and alumni relations at Emory University. As vice president for development, University Programs, he was responsible for directing the development and alumni relations activity in each of the non-health sciences schools and units at Emory, directing central fundraising programs, and co-directing the planning and execution of Emory’s $1.6 billion campaign. This work involved close collaboration with the Health Sciences units as well as the Emory Board of Trustees and the Emory Alumni Board.

Directly before joining Harvey Mudd, Macaluso served briefly as a consultant for the LIVESTRONG Foundation, a national non-profit focused on improving the lives of individuals affected by cancer, helping them plan for a national launch and execution of the foundation’s first comprehensive campaign.

Macaluso is from State College, Pennsylvania, and earned his bachelor’s degree in marketing from Penn State University, where his father served for 35 years on the acoustical engineering faculty, conducting research in underwater sound and dynamics in the University’s Applied Research Lab. He and his wife, Shanin (also a Penn State graduate) have been married for 22 years and have four teen-aged children: Sasha, Kyle, Elizabeth and Sam.