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Dr. William B. Harvey
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William B. Harvey
was named Vice President and Chief Officer for Diversity
and Equity at the University of Virginia in October of
2005.
Since his appointment at the University of Virginia in the new position of Vice President and Chief Officer for Diversity and Equity, William B. Harvey has initiated the U.Va. Symposium on Race and Society, the Diversity Council, and the Community Relations Advisory Group. He has also partnered with the Curry School of Education to launch the Walter N. Ridley Distinguished Speaker Series and supported a variety of faculty and student initiatives that celebrate the rich diversity of the University. Harvey, who assumed his position in November 2005, was vice president and director of the Center for Advancement of Racial and Ethnic Equity at the American Council on Education in Washington, D.C., from 2000-2005. Prior to that, he served as dean of the School of Education and deputy chancellor for Educational Partnerships at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Harvey's career in higher education spans over 35 years and crisscrosses academic and administration positions. He has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in education, anthropology and African-American studies, among other subjects, at several colleges and universities. He also has held other positions in academic affairs, research administration and student affairs. The focus of his research and scholarly activity has been on the cultural and social factors that affect underserved populations, with particular emphasis on college and university settings. In addition to editing the highly acclaimed ACE Annual Status Report on Minorities in Higher Education, his extensive list of publications includes books, book chapters, refereed journal articles, and professional and technical reviews. He serves as an Executive Editor of the Negro Educational Review, a Consulting Editor of Change: The Magazine for Higher Learning, and an Editorial Board Member of Multicultural Learning and Teaching. He has been a Visiting Associate at the Smithsonian Institution, an ACE Fellow, an Institute for Educational Leadership Fellow, a Summer Research Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, and has participated in two National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminars. Harvey received his bachelor's degree in English from West Chester University. His master's degree in Social and Philosophical Foundations of Education and his doctoral degree in Anthropology of Education were both earned at Rutgers University. In addition to serving as chair of the Education Advisory Board of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, he is also a member of the advisory boards for the Study of New Scholars project at Harvard University; the Yale-Howard Partnership Center on Reducing Health Disparities; the W.E.B. DuBois Scholars Program at Princeton University, and Project Site Support at Johns Hopkins University. He is a member of the Board of Directors at Capella University and the Board of Visitors of the School of Education at the University of Pittsburgh. |