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Rollins College President Brooke Barnett announced today the appointment of Amanda Peters Hopkins ’03 as vice president of institutional advancement. Hopkins will begin her tenure as vice president on February 15, 2027.

An advancement leader with nearly two decades of experience in higher education, Hopkins currently serves as associate vice chancellor for development at the University of Colorado Boulder, where she leads the university’s development enterprise. In this role, she has led the creation of strategies, teams, systems, and infrastructure that have helped drive an 81 percent increase in annual fundraising over three fiscal years while strengthening CU Boulder’s capacity for philanthropic support.

Her work has included building and strengthening fundraising programs and organizational capabilities toward sustained outcomes. She has also partnered with university leaders and advancement colleagues to secure more than $100 million in philanthropic support for institutional priorities.

As vice president for institutional advancement at Rollins, Hopkins will oversee development, corporate and foundation relations, donor relations, annual giving, alumni engagement, and advancement services.

For Hopkins, the appointment represents a homecoming and a return to the Central Florida community where she grew up and began her professional career. She graduated cum laude from Rollins with a degree in political science and received the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Medallion. After earning her law degree from the University of Florida, she returned to Orlando to practice commercial transactions law at Zimmerman, Kiser & Sutcliffe PA before joining Rollins in 2009.

During her eight years on staff at Rollins, Hopkins rose through progressively senior advancement roles, ultimately serving as assistant vice president for development and interim vice president for institutional advancement. As interim vice president, she maintained momentum during the leadership phase of the Brighter Together campaign.

Hopkins succeeds Laurie Houck, who announced her retirement in August after nearly a decade at Rollins.

“Returning to Rollins is both deeply personal and an extraordinary opportunity to help shape what comes next for the College,” says Hopkins. “I have tremendous respect for Laurie’s leadership and the strong foundation the advancement team has built. I look forward to partnering with President Barnett and the Rollins community to imagine what is possible, deepen lifelong relationships with the College, and inspire the engagement and philanthropy that will help realize Rollins’ aspirations for the future.”

Hopkins is an active leader in the advancement profession. In 2026, she received the CASE District VI Chief Executive Leadership Award, recognizing her vision, ability to inspire others, and commitment to advancing higher education. She has also served on the faculty for CASE’s Transformational Gifts Conference and is a graduate of the HERS Leadership Institute.

“What makes Amanda uniquely suited to lead our advancement division isn’t just her expertise and experience—it’s also her relationship with this place,” says President Barnett. “She has experienced Rollins as a student, loved it as an alumna, and served it as a member of our staff. That depth of understanding, paired with the advancement leadership she has built over her career, is exactly what will carry our institutional advancement division—and this College—into its next chapter.”