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CLEVELAND—Susan Lajoie Eagan has been appointed executive director of Case Western Reserve University's Mandel Center for Nonprofit Organizations. She also will join the faculty of CWRU's Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences as a scholar in the practice of nonprofit management.

"After almost a year of searching for just the right person to bring the Center into greater national prominence, we found Dr. Eagan right here in our own back yard," said Darlyne Bailey, dean of MSASS and chair of the Mandel Center secretariat. "It is a win for the Center, the School, the University and Cleveland."

Previously Eagan had been executive vice president of the Cleveland Foundation, where her responsibilities included external affairs; strategic planning; leadership in communication, marketing, program, and grantmaking activities; and coordinating cross-functional activities.

Eagan co-chairs the Ohio Courts Futures Commission and is a trustee of a variety of nonprofit organizations, including the Foundation Center, Communications Network in Philanthropy, and Women & Philanthropy. She also has performed committee work for the Federation for Community Planning, United Way Services, the Urban League, the Council on Foundations, and Leadership Cleveland.

Eagan holds a B.A. in political science from the University of Massachusetts and master's and doctoral degrees from Harvard University, where she also has been a teaching fellow. She has taught in the College of Professional Studies at the University of Massachusetts and guest lectured at John Carroll University, Cleveland State University, and CWRU.

Eagan has been recognized by the YWCA of Greater Cleveland as a Greater Cleveland Career Woman of Achievement, by Crain's Cleveland Business as a Woman of Influence, and by Cleveland Magazine as one of its "29 Most Influential Women in Business."