Mark Eyerly, a top higher education communications executive for Temple and the Univ. of Pennsylvania Law School, has enrolled at Lafayette College to lead marketing and communications as VP.
Eyerly has run his own shop for the past two years since exiting Drexel University's LeBow College of Business, where he was executive director of communications. She was associate dean for communications at U. Penn's law school and chief communications officer at Temple.
He also held top communications roles at the William Penn Foundation and PNC Bank after starting out in journalism with Lancaster Newspapers.
At Easton, Pa.-based Lafayette, he succeeds Michael Kiser, who moved to the Council for Advancement and Support of Education earlier this year as VP of marketing and communications.
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