Scott Shrode
Vice President for Institutional Advancement

Scott Shrode joined Lenoir-Rhyne University in May of 2006 as vice president for institutional advancement .

He has extensive experience in the field of college advancement and also holds a law degree from Northwestern University School of Law in Chicago. He graduated summa cum laude from the University of Evansville in Evansville, Ind., where he received the Guthrie May Award for the outstanding graduating senior.

He most recently served as executive director of university development at Colorado State University-Pueblo Foundation. Prior to that time, he was vice president of Old National Trust Co. of Evansville, Ind.
From 1993 to 2002, he was vice president for development at the University of Evansville, a United Methodist-affiliated university with an enrollment of 2,300 students. In that position, he supervised major gifts, planned gifts, annual giving, alumni relations, university relations, publications, the college radio station, and governmental relations.

During that time, he planned and supervised a $2 million, two-year campaign for Harlaxton University, the university's British campus. He also developed and implemented a plan to increase annual giving by 76 percent during a four-year period.

He planned and implemented a $60 million capital campaign, which was completed two years ahead of schedule and substantially exceeded prior campaign results.

Shrode also practiced law in Indiana, serving as director of the Estate Department for Gerling Law Offices from 1988 to 1993. He served as general counsel and assistant vice president for development at the University of Evansville from 1987 to 1988. He also served as an adjunct professor in the University of Evansville School of Business. Earlier, he was a partner in two law firms in Evansville.

Shrode has been active in various Evansville charities and has served on the board of directors of the Evansville Zoological Society, the Mesker Park Zoo Foundation, the Deaconess Hospital Foundation Board and the Vanderburgh County Historical Society.

He has been an active member of Aldersgate United Methodist Church, where he has served on the Administrative Board, as finance chairman and on the Board of Trustees.

His interests outside of work include golf, horseback riding, hiking, zoos and the preservation of wildlife, and history. He is married to Susan R. Shrode, who is a physical therapist, and is the father of a son, Charles, and a daughter, Emily McKinley.