Tori Haliburton
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Tori Haliburton is a native of Friendship, Tennessee. She is a graduate of Lane College, a small Christian Methodist Episcopal HBCU in West, Tennessee where she received her Bachelor of Arts Degree in Interdisciplinary Studies. She received her Master of Public Administration from Villanova University. She has also received certificates from Hampton and Harvard University.
Haliburton brings over 16 consecutive years of experience from the HBCU background. She works in areas directly related to the institution’s financial growth and sustainability, and specifically, in the areas of student recruitment, student development, event planning, alumni relations, donor relations, volunteer engagement, fundraising and community involvement.
Most importantly, after resurrecting a position that had been stagnate for nearly 15 years, Haliburton takes pride in the fact that she built a strong support and communication system with alumni and stakeholders, boosting the alumni giving rate from 4 percent to nearly 44% percent in four years. Her most prized accomplishment is identifying alumni and stakeholders who made financial contributions to the college.
She has served as Softball Coach, Cheerleading Coach, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority advisor, Miss UNCF Advisor, Miss Lane College Advisor, Mr. Lane College Advisor and the Advisor to the Pre-Alumni Council.
Haliburton serves and has served on several committees that include, but are not limited to, the President’s Advisory Council; SACSCOC Principles of Accreditation Team; President’s Cabinet; Student Disciplinary; Admissions Interview Panel Board; Athletic Hall of Fame Scholarship Banquet Committee; Founder’s Day; Scholarship Gala Committee; Commencement Committee; Honors Convocation Committee; SCALES Planning Committee; the Alumni Hall of Distinction; and Athletic Hall of Fame. She was also Co-Chair of the Lane College Tom Joyner School of the Month Campaign as well as a Representative at CASE (Council for Advancement and Support of Education) District III Annual Conference.
Haliburton has always been deeply rooted in the community and received recognition as the 2016 WestStar African-American Leadership Emerging Leader and was named to the Jackson Sun and the Jackson Chamber of Commerce Forty Under 40. She is also Lane College’s Outstanding Young Alumnus 2017 and a graduate of the Crockett Country Leadership Academy as well as the Hampton Leadership Institute.
Currently Haliburton serves as the Associate Vice President of Institutional Advancement at Wiley College. She is a member of the New St. Luke Baptist Church in Jackson, TN and is the mother of one son, Miles.