Vice chancellor hired to manage fundraising at UAMS

A former Texas Tech University System administrator has been hired to lead fundraising efforts at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock, Chancellor Cam Patterson said Monday.

Angela Wimmer, who has more than 19 years of experience in fundraising, began her new job Monday as vice chancellor of institutional advancement at UAMS.

In that role, Wimmer will manage all of UAMS’ development programs, including the annual fund; corporate and foundation relations; major gifts and gift planning; endowment; capital campaigns; and alumni and constituent relations. She will be the primary liaison to the 56-member UAMS Foundation Fund Board, which supports the university leadership team.

Wimmer, 38, will earn an annual salary of $300,000.

At Texas Tech’s system in Lubbock, Wimmer was associate vice chancellor for central advancement, part of a leadership team responsible for the advancement operation for two universities and two health science centers.

She has been senior associate director of development at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, director of corporate relations at Auburn University, and director of corporate and foundation relations at Auburn’s Raymond J. Harbert College of Business in Alabama.

She has a master’s degree in adult education and organizational development and a bachelor’s degree in political science from Auburn. She also participated in the Advanced Leadership Program at Cambridge and completed the Centro de Lenguas Modernas, Spanish Immersion Program at the Universidad de Granada in Granada, Spain.

UAMS, the state’s largest public employer, is Arkansas’ only health sciences university, with a medical school and hospital in Little Rock, a campus in Fayetteville and sites in different regions.