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EUGENE–Allan Price, vice president of institutional advancement at Arizona State University for the past five years, this summer will become vice president for university advancement at the University of Oregon, President Dave Frohnmayer announced today (May 7).

Price, 45, replaces Duncan McDonald in the position formerly called vice president for public affairs and development. After four years in the post, McDonald is returning to the classroom as a professor in the School of Journalism and Communication, where he served as dean from 1994—97.

In his new job, which he starts in July, Price will report directly to Frohnmayer and will oversee university fund raising; public, media and governmental relations; alumni affairs; university publications including the alumni magazine "Oregon Quarterly;" radio station KWAX-FM; and marketing and licensing of UO merchandise.

"Allan Price has been extremely successful at convincing alumni, donors, legislators and the public that the health of Arizona’s economy is closely tied to the quality of the state’s universities, and that experience will be very helpful to Oregon," says Frohnmayer. "An ASU campaign he directed has raised almost $500 million in private gifts, much of it for student scholarships and endowed faculty positions. He also helped promote passage of a state tax measure that is providing an additional $45 million a year for research at Arizona universities."

Price says he accepted the UO job because "I was attracted to the quality of life in Eugene and was really impressed with the University of Oregon, both the quality of the institution and the quality of the people I met. People there are really excited and ready to go. There’s a real sense of potential. It was an attractive professional opportunity and personal lifestyle choice for my wife and me. I am eager to begin."

At ASU, Price has been responsible for the same areas he will oversee at Oregon plus operation of three university performing arts facilities and a public television station. In addition, he has overseen management of a 40-acre commercial real estate development on university property and helped establish the Arizona Technology Incubator in Tempe, a business-university partnership that nurtures technology-related startup companies.

Price has worked for ASU in various administrative capacities since 1989. Before that, he served as associate director for public affairs for the Arizona Board of Regents and worked as a senior policy analyst for then-Arizona Gov. Bruce Babbitt.

He obtained his bachelor’s degree in social work in 1982 and his master’s degree, also in social work in 1983, both from ASU. He is currently completing a doctoral degree in public administration.

Price and his wife, Susan, a human resources consultant and free-lance writer, have two sons–Nicholas, 23, and Zachary, 17.

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