Vice President For Institutional Advancement

Mr. Anthony Fairbanks

Mr. Anthony Fairbanks, a university administrator with 25 years of experience in development and fund-raising, came to Central State University in the fall of 2002 as vice president of institutional advancement. He came to CSU from a post as vice chancellor for institutional advancement at North Carolina Central University in Durham, NC. He also served for four years as vice president for development and external relations at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania. Both are historically black institutions.

Mr. Fairbanks' higher education experience was preceded by service as president of the Council on Career Development for Minorities, Inc. in Dallas, and as vice president of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation in Princeton, NJ.

His long and successful career has also included consultant services to the U.S. government Departments of Labor, Education, Housing and Urban Development, as well as to such organizations as the Kellogg Foundation, the United Negro College Fund, the Robert R. Moton Institute and the National Urban League.

Mr. Fairbanks earned a master's degree in public administration from Cornell University and a bachelor's degree in city and regional planning and urban education at Ohio State University. As a civic and community leader, Mr. Fairbanks has served numerous organizations as a director or advisor. In 1992, President George Bush and the Xerox Corporation honored Mr. Fairbanks with its Afro-American Male of the Year Award for his work in volunteerism and with at-risk youth.