Francis Schodowski, Ph.D.

Dr. Francis Schodowski joined the Presbyterian College community as vice president of advancement in August, 2022.

Schodowski is a 1996 graduate of Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania, earning a bachelor of science in business administration and marketing. He earned a master of business administration from Alvernia University in Reading, Penn., and a doctorate in education from Northeastern University in Boston, Mass.

Prior to PC, Schodowski served as executive vice president at Columbia College in Columbia, S.C., where he also served as vice president for advancement.

Before joining the administration at Columbia, Schodowski served as associate vice president for advancement at Lebanon Valley College in Annville, Penn.

Prior to that, Schodowski joined the staff at Millersville University in Pennsylvania as director of development. While there, his responsibilities evolved to include service as director of planned giving, interim executive director of the Millersville University Foundation, and interim assistant vice president of alumni and development. During his tenure at Millersville and with its institutionally-affiliated foundation, the endowment doubled and a comprehensive campaign was designed, conducted, and concluded with gifts exceeding $85 million.

He began his professional career in 1996 as an admissions counselor at Alvernia. In just under a decade, Schodowski advanced in various roles both in admissions and advancement. He served as assistant director of admissions, director of undergraduate admissions, director of development, and assistant vice president of development, before completing his time at Alvernia as associate vice president of advancement.

Living the college’s motto “While We Live, We Serve”, he has been active in the communities in which he has worked. Most recently, service opportunities have included SCBio (Board), SC Philharmonic (Advisory Board), SC Planned Giving Council (Board). Other areas of interest and support around non-profit and economic impact have included Special Olympics (volunteer), Columbia Development Corporation (Board).

Francis and his wife, Amy, have three children- Kaylee, George, and Makenna.