Faculty/Staff

Laura Alford

Laura Alford

Advancement Administrator
lalford@usf.edu 
Campus: Tampa
Room: BSN 205
Phone: (813) 974-3219

Laura Alford is an advancement administrator with the Muma College of Business’s development department, starting in March 2020. Her responsibilities include providing support for the college’s development team, writing donor acknowledgement letters and gifts and pulling reports for fund information for development and department heads. She also processes monthly credit card transactions and mileage, check requests, budget reports, monthly OSD spending reports and setting appointments

Further responsibilities include Executive Bulls acknowledgements and gifts, assisting with the scholarship process, including mailings, processing fund data forms, requesting financial aid codes and helping provide information for the scholarship luncheon. She began working at USF in 2016 at the USF Foundation as a prospect research specialist and was promoted to a prospect research analyst doing research for the Muma College of Business, the College of Engineering and WUSF. Prior to working at USF, Alford worked at JP Morgan in its HSA Operations Department. Both her children are graduates of the Muma College of Business.

She received a bachelor’s degree in mass communications and public relations from USF in 1989.