Debra Purviance
Director of Gift Planning
B.A., Florida Southern College, Lakeland, Florida
M.Div., Brite Divinity School, Texas Christian University, Ft. Worth, Texas
Join UT Arlington in 2009
(817) 272-1080

As Director of Gift Planning, Debra is responsible for working with alumni and friends of UT Arlington on revocable and irrevocable estate gifts, including wills and bequests, insurance and life income gifts.  She has more than 20 years of experience in resource development, having worked primarily in higher education, health and human services and faith based organizations.  Prior to coming to UT Arlington, she served as Vice President for Development at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College near Terre Haute, Indiana.  Debra, a native Texan, has spent most of her career north of Texas in Oklahoma, Missouri, Illinois and Indiana and is grateful to be back “home.”