William H. Graves, Ph.D.

Dr. William H. Graves is Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Academic Officer for Collegis. His perspective derives from over 30 years of experience in higher education. He is recognized for his leadership in encouraging the systemic use of technology in the educational process. Graves has given hundreds of invited presentations at conferences and on campuses, advised hundreds of colleges and universities, and published more than 60 articles on technology-in-education themes. He is a member of the board of directors of the Instructional Management Systems Global Learning Consortium, a past member of the boards of EDUCAUSE and CAUSE, and is on the Advisory Board for the Center for Academic Transformation funded by the Pew Trust. He helped launch Internet2 and EDUCAUSE’s National Learning Infrastructure Initiative and still chairs the NLII planning committee. Graves earned his mathematics doctorate at Indiana University. He joined the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and served there also as dean for general education, interim academic officer, senior information technology officer, and founder and director of the Institute for Academic Technology, a University partnership with IBM. He became Professor Emeritus of Mathematics upon leaving the University with his Institute colleagues to join Collegis.

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