Michael L. Bassoff has been named Northern Arizona University’s new Vice President for Advancement and Executive Director of the NAU Foundation, effective March 1, NAU President Rita Cheng announced in a letter to the community Thursday. Bassoff has 30 years of institutional and entrepreneurial fundraising and has spent more than 18 years as a foundation chief executive. He was Founding President of the TGen Foundation and built the nonprofit medical research institute that raised more than $300 million over 15 years. "Having spent most of my life in the academic and scientific community of Arizona, I have a deep-rooted commitment to our state and its higher education system," Bassoff said. "I have a clear understanding of NAU's important and growing role in that system, an understanding which can be traced to my longtime work with NAU leadership and faculty."

Source: Daily Sun February 13, 2021 17:03 UTC