UC mourns the loss of Bill Mulvihill, longtime UC Foundation and UC Athletics leader

Modeling what makes a UC education so valuable, Bill’s student years informed what would become his life’s work. Indeed, his 44-year professional career flowed naturally from his vibrant undergraduate experience, and his deep involvement with various student organizations yielded relationships that benefited both him and his university for the rest of his life. Ever since his days in the 1970s as a young alumnus working directly with then-President Warren Bennis to help coordinate UC’s conversion from a municipal university to a state university, Bill was a leader and a doer on campus in a variety of key roles ranging from the UC Foundation and the UC Alumni Association to UC Athletics and the President’s Office. Through it all, his singular focus was on elevating his university and fellow Bearcats.

Bill’s organizational and fundraising prowess was also employed during a subsequent seven-year stint with the UC Foundation, where notably he served as director for the Proudly Cincinnati Campaign, UC’s first billion-dollar campaign. He became the UC Foundation’s executive vice president, then executive director of the UC Bicentennial Commission in the Office of the President. Just prior to his retirement in 2016, Bill co-edited the coffee table book of UC history, The University of Cincinnati: Soaring Into Our Third Century. Shortly thereafter, the university presented Bill with the President’s Award for Excellence, one of UC’s highest honors, to recognize the extraordinary difference he had made.