Hamden Resident Judite Vamvakides Named Director of Annual Giving at Sacred Heart University

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Judite Vamvakides

FAIRFIELD, CT (08/27/2010)(readMedia)-- Judite C. Vamvakides has been named the director of Annual Giving at Sacred Heart University. The Hamden resident will plan and manage a comprehensive annual giving program including University fundraising events and special solicitations.

An alumna of Southern Connecticut State University, where she earned her bachelor's degree in Psychology, with a concentration in corporate communications, she is pursuing a master's there in Women's Studies. For the past three years, she has been a marketing coordinator and sales associate in Latin American equities for Credit Suisse in New York City.

Prior to that assignment, she was for nine years associated with her alma mater, where she rose to become assistant director for annual giving. At SCSU, she led the Development Office's annual giving efforts, increased phone-a-thon results by 75 percent, and increased alumni donations by 43 percent.

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About Sacred Heart University

Sacred Heart University, the second-largest Catholic university in New England, offers more than 40 undergraduate, graduate and doctoral programs on its main campus in Fairfield, Connecticut, and satellites in Connecticut, Luxembourg and Ireland. More than 6,000 students attend the University's four colleges: Arts & Sciences; Education & Health Professions; University College; and the AACSB-accredited John F. (Jack) Welch College of Business. The Princeton Review includes SHU in its "Best 371 Colleges: 2010" and "Best 301 Business Schools: 2010" and U.S. News & World Report ranks SHU among the best master's universities in the North in its annual "America's Best Colleges" publication. As one of just 23 institutions nationally, SHU is a member of the Association of American Colleges & Universities' (AAC&U) Core Commitments Leadership Consortium, in recognition of its core, "The Human Journey." SHU fields 31 division I athletic teams, and has an award-winning program of community service. www.sacredheart.edu

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