Joanna N. Brode, an executive director with the Office of Development at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, has been appointed director of Leadership Gifts and Regional Development at Radcliffe College. Brode, who managed the East Coast region for the University of Michigan since 1994, assumes her new responsibilities on Feb. 18.

In her new role, Brode will oversee the College's major gifts, planned giving, and regional development programs and assume responsibility for soliciting major gifts.

"Joanna Brode is an important addition to our development team at Radcliffe College," said Martha Ann Fuller, the director of development. "This particular position requires someone with the expertise to manage not only nine regional campaigns effectively, but also to solicit the critical gifts that will enable us to raise $100 million dollars by the year 2000."

Brode worked at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, for more than a decade. During her tenure, she worked on two capital campaigns, and served as a special gifts officer, a major gifts officer, the director of principal gifts, and as executive director of the Midwest and East Coast regions. Brode also played a strategic role in the program development and events planning that supported the University's cultivation strategy.

Before going to the University of Michigan, she served as project manager for the National Trust Main Street Program in Howell, Michigan, and program administrator for the Jewish Community Center in Detroit.

Brode graduated from Wayne State University in 1965 with a bachelor's degree in English Literature and a teaching certificate in secondary education. In 1984, she received a master's degree in historic preservation from Eastern Michigan University.

The Campaign for Radcliffe is designed to enhance the College's work through greater engagement with its students, alumnae, friends, and leaders, and to raise $100 million in new resources to support Radcliffe's education, research, and policy programs.