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William H. Graves (Ellucian)

William H. Graves
Senior VP, Academic Strategy

Chapel Hill, North Carolina
UNITED STATES

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Dr. William H. Graves is on the executive team at Ellucian. As Senior VP, Academic Strategy, he helps Ellucian and clients develop actionable, IT-enabled strategies for measurably improving upon and accounting for mission performance. He views the postsecondary credentialing marketplace as a “common good” that must increasingly depend on IT-enabled strategies to expand educational justice and attainment and, thereby, to help meet humanity's challenges. Graves numerous publications and presentations foresee a credentialing enterprise more open, scalable, agile, broadly affordable, and attainment oriented than today’s.

Before Ellucian, Bill served the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for 30 years as math professor, dean, acting academic officer, senior IT officer, and founder of the Institute for Academic Technology, a joint effort with IBM. During those years he served on boards for CAUSE, EDUCAUSE, and the Coalition for Networked Information, and helped launch both Internet2 and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative. Now he serves on governing or advisory organizations for the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science, U.S. Department of Education's Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education, National Center for Academic Transformation, IMS Global Learning Consortium, AASCU’s Red Balloon Project, International Association of University Presidents, and Antioch University.

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