During his tenure, Sawyer also led the advancement team in raising funds to support strategic capital projects, including the Miguel B. Fernandez Family Center for Innovation and Collaborative Learning, which opened in Fall 2021.
Under his leadership as senior vice president, Sawyer oversaw an advancement team that secured multi-million dollar gifts to support the construction of the Fernandez Center of Innovation and Collaborative Learning, a career services team that has re-envisioned the University's approach to the discernment and pursuit of careers for its students and alumni; and the office of marketing and communications.
A native of Wayne, N.J., Sawyer earned his bachelor's degree in government and politics from the University of Maryland, College Park, a Juris Doctor degree from the Widener University School of Law, and completed the Harvard Graduate School of Education's Institute for Educational Management program.
Prior to working at Loyola, Sawyer was an attorney for the Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development and practiced civil and criminal law in Baltimore City.
Sawyer's wife, Courtney, is a speech pathologist who earned her Master of Science in Speech-Language Pathology from Loyola University Maryland.