American Association for Access, Equity and Diversity Announces Appointment of William B. Harvey, Ph.D. as Distinguished Scholar
Washington, DC (PRWEB) October 08, 2014 -- The American Association for Access, Equity and Diversity (AAAED), an association of equal employment opportunity (EEO), diversity and affirmative action professionals, announced the appointment of William B. Harvey as AAAED Distinguished Scholar. In the position of Distinguished Scholar, Dr. Harvey will provide advice and guidance on issues involving diversity, inclusion, equal opportunity and related social justice issues affecting education, business and industry, government and the non-profit sectors.
"We are delighted to have such an outstanding leader and educator to join our association as Distinguished Scholar," said AAAED President Marshall Rose. Founded in 1974 as the American Association for Affirmative Action (AAAA), AAAED is a national not-for-profit association of professionals working in the areas of compliance and diversity. AAAED has 40 years of leadership in providing professional training to members, enabling them to be more successful and productive in their careers. It also promotes understanding and advocacy of affirmative action and other equal opportunity and related compliance laws and regulations to enhance the diversity tenets of access, inclusion and equality in employment, economic and educational opportunities.
William B. Harvey brings four decades of experience in the academic and non-profit sectors. A distinguished researcher and administrator, Harvey's scholarly activity has been focused on the cultural and social factors that affect underserved populations, with particular emphasis on college and university settings. His extensive list of publications includes books, book chapters, refereed journal articles and professional and technical reviews. Among his recent scholarly contributions are: "Chief Diversity Officers and the Wonderful World of Academe", in the June 2014 issue of the Journal of Diversity in Higher Education; a commissioned paper for the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at Ohio State University entitled, Higher Education and Diversity: Ethical and Practical Responsibility in the Academy; and two co-edited volumes, Footprints to Success in the Academy, and Perspectives on Change in the American System of Higher Education, which were published in both English and Chinese by the Ocean University Press of China. Harvey serves as an Executive Editor of the Negro Education Review; Associate Editor of the Journal of Multicultural Learning and Teaching; and as an editorial board member for the Journal of Diversity in Higher Education; the Journal of the Professoriate; and Effective Practices for Academic Leaders.
Harvey's previous administrative positions include appointments as the Dean of the School of Education at North Carolina A&T State University; Provost/Vice President for Academic and Student Affairs at Rosemont College; Vice President for Diversity and Equity at the University of Virginia, where he directed the Virginia-North Carolina Alliance for Minority Participation and secured a $5 million grant from the National Science Foundation; Vice President and Director of the Center for Advancement of Racial and Ethnic Equity at the American Council on Education; and Dean of the School of Education and Deputy Chancellor for Education Partnerships at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He has also held the position of Chief Executive Officer of the International Reading Association.
In addition to having served as chair of the Education Advisory Committee of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Harvey has been a Visiting Associate at the Smithsonian Institution, an American Council on Education Fellow; an Institute for Educational Leadership Fellow; and a Summer Research Fellow at the Center for Advance Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. He is the founding President of the National Association for Diversity Officers in Higher Education and a member of the Board of the American Association for Blacks in Higher Education and the National Council for Research on Women. He has previously served on the board of the Yale-Howard Center on Health Disparities; the W.E.B. DuBois Scholars Program at Princeton University; the Study of New Scholars Project at Harvard University; the Site Support for Schools Project at Johns Hopkins University; the Martin Luther King Living History and Public Policy Center; and the Board of Visitors at the University of Pittsburgh School of Education.
Harvey received a bachelor's degree in English from West Chester University (PA), a master's degree in Social and Philosophical Foundations and doctoral degree in Anthropology of Education from Rutgers University.
Shirley J. Wilcher, American Association for Access, Equity and Diversity, http://www.aaaed.org, 240-893-9475, [email protected]
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