Executive Director of Development and AVP for University Interdisciplinary Initiatives Development Tony Reevy to Retire
Executive Director of Development and Assistant Vice Provost for University Interdisciplinary Initiatives Development Tony Reevy will retire effective June 30, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Warwick Arden announced today.
“Tony has dedicated decades of service to advancing NC State and the broader public mission of higher education. Through his leadership in development, he helped strengthen support for interdisciplinary initiatives and build partnerships that expand the university’s impact,’ Arden said. “I am grateful for Tony’s commitment to this institution and wish him the very best in retirement.”
Plans for hiring Reevy’s replacement will be made by the incoming provost at a later date. In the interim, Lauren Wilcox, assistant vice chancellor for university development, will be serving as the point of contact for interdisciplinary development.
Reevy attended NC State and worked his way through his undergraduate years as a chemistry lab clerk, undergraduate teaching assistant and tutor, graduating in 1983 with degrees in civil engineering and chemistry. He returned to NC State for the first time from 1994 to 2001 as the university’s first director of library development.
He returned to NC State in 2018 as the director of development for both the Institute for Emerging Issues and the Shelton Leadership Center (SLC); he was the first director of development for SLC. In 2022, he was named assistant vice provost for university interdisciplinary initiatives development. In that role, he established fundraising programs for the four academies in the Office of University Interdisciplinary Programs and for the Integrative Sciences Initiative. In addition, he helped lead fundraising for Woodson Hall. With the assistance of many colleagues, over $10 million has been raised for the construction of this key campus building.
Reevy has worked in university development, communications and administration for 40 years, including 35 years with the UNC System. In addition to NC State, he has worked at the American University, UNC Charlotte and UNC-Chapel Hill. He has served on a number of boards and commissions, including a term as Chair of the Albemarle-Pamlico National Estuary Program’s Policy Board.
“Since I spent four years in Dabney Hall as a student,” Reevy says, “working with Provost Warwick Arden, Joshua Pierce, Rob Dunn and many others to advance Woodson Hall and the Integrative Sciences Initiative has been an exciting capstone to my career. In a way, it was going back to where I started at NC State. It has also been very rewarding to help advance interdisciplinarity at our university, to build collaborations with my colleagues, and to go beyond the Integrative Sciences to the four academies and more. Seeing those collaborations take shape across the university has been one of the most meaningful parts of my time at NC State.”
