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Vance Peterson is Vice President for Advancement at The Culinary Institute of America (CIA) and bears primary responsibility for all alumni relations and fundraising for the college.
Before joining the CIA administration in 2004, Dr. Peterson served as president of the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE), the leading international association of alumni relations, communications, and fundraising professionals in higher education. Between 1996 and 2000, Dr. Peterson was president of Sierra Nevada College in Incline Village, Nevada. Prior to that, he served seven years as vice president for institutional advancement at Occidental College in Los Angeles.
He was with the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) from 1982 to 1989, as associate provost of the College of Letters and Science and Associate Director of University Development, after serving as director of operations for the UCLA Campaign, which at the time was the largest-ever campaign for a public university. He came to UCLA from the University of Southern California, where he was executive director of university relations and director of academic relations between 1977 and 1982.
Dr. Peterson was an assistant professor and director of the John H. Russel Center for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Toledo from 1974 to 1977. He holds a bachelor’s degree in English literature from Occidental College, a master’s in government and business administration from George Washington University, and a Ph.D. in higher education from Stanford University.
Vance Peterson served in the United States Navy and Navy Reserve, achieving the rank of Captain. As an undergraduate, he was an All-American track and field athlete, attaining a top-ten world ranking in the 400-meter hurdles.
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