Michael C Eicher

Michael C. Eicher became vice president for development and alumni relations at Johns Hopkins on Sept. 1, 2006. He has overall responsibility for attracting private financial support for the university and Johns Hopkins Medicine and for strengthening Johns Hopkins' relationships with alumni and other supporters.

On arrival, Eicher assumed leadership for the Johns Hopkins: Knowledge for the World campaign. That seven-year effort, under way since 2000, is focused on the critical unmet needs of the university and Johns Hopkins Medicine, including student aid and faculty chairs, construction of clinical buildings at the medical campus and important renovation projects such as the Homewood campus's Gilman Hall.

Prior to joining Johns Hopkins, Eicher had been vice chancellor at the University of California, Los Angeles, since 1998 and had been with UCLA since 1986. He rose from associate director of development in the School of Medicine to deputy director and director, and from there to vice provost for medical science development, and assistant and associate vice chancellor. Campaign UCLA, a 10-year effort completed in 2005, raised $3.05 billion, a record for U.S. universities, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education. Gifts to the UCLA campaign supported 30,000 scholarships and fellowships.

Eicher graduated from the University of California, San Diego, in 1979.

[Updated September 2006]