Visiting Scholars
NCID Visiting Senior Scholar, 2008-2009
Jerlando Jackson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Professor Jackson is an Associate Professor of Higher and Postsecondary Education in Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis, Faculty Associate for the Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of Postsecondary Education, and Faculty Affiliate in the Weinert Center for Entrepreneurship (School of Business) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research concentrates on workforce diversity and workplace discrimination in higher education. In addition, he serves as the Executive Director for the Center for African American Research and Policy, which is developing and publishing a new generation of research on policy issues confronting African Americans in both the academy and society at-large. Frequently sought as a keynote speaker, he is credited with over 75 publications, 100 presentations, and two recently edited books: Strengthening the African American Educational Pipeline: Informing Research, Policy, and Practice for SUNY-Albany Press (2007) and Toward Administrative Reawakening: Creating and Maintaining Safe College Campuses for Stylus Publishing (2007). Currently, Professor Jackson is working on a book for Jossey-Bass titled Administrators of Color: Identifying Challenges and Possibilities for Enhancing Leadership in Higher and Postsecondary Education.
While on sabbatical leave from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Dr. Jackson served as a Visiting Senior Scholar in the National Center for Institutional Diversity (NCID), where he worked on 3 book projects, 7 empirical studies, 3 book chapters, and 2 national forums. His scholarship contributes to NCID’s core priority area focusing on Education Scholarship and Innovation.
Jerlando Jackson’s website at University of Wisconsin-Madison