College of Education Office of Community College Research and Leadership

Edmund Graham III

Assistant Director, National Center for Institutional Diversity

Edmund Graham serves as NCID's assistant director. In this role, he provides strategic administrative leadership to programmatic, community building, and staff development work. Most recently Edmund served as the inaugural Minority Serving Institutions Initiative program lead within the Rackham Graduate School where he led efforts to support faculty/units in developing strategic, mutually beneficial, fully engaged partnerships with MSIs. Edmund has also worked in research and practice positions at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Huston-Tillotson University, and Mott Community College. Edmund received his BS from Grambling State University, MA from the University of Minnesota, and is finishing up his Ph.D. in education policy, organization and leadership from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Projects

Research Areas

  • College and Career Readiness
  • Career Pathways

Professional Associations

  • American Education Research Association - Diversion J
  • Association for the Study of Higher Education
  • Council for the Study of Community Colleges
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