Examples of My Work
- Academic Creativity: Its Own Worst Enemy
- Assessing Assessment
- Bibliography of IT-Related Publications
- Distance Ed and Institutional Performance
- Waste Not the Learning Productivity Crisis
- Improving Institutional Performance through IT-Enabled Innovation
- Improving Institutional Performance: The Necessary Role of IT-Enabled Innovation (white paper)
- Let's Not Waste a Perfectly Good Learning Productivity Crisis
- Measurable Performance Improvement (white paper)
- Order the Change, and Change the Order
- PRESENTATION -- Waste Not a Learning Productivity Crisis
- The Object of Content Management
- Voluntary Counter-Reformation: Stepping Up to the Challenge
- Winning with Win-Win Sourcing
Biography
Dr. William H. Graves, as senior vice president for academic strategy, is a member of the executive leadership team at SunGard Higher Education. He is also a member of the board of governors of Antioch University and a professor emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) where, after earning a mathematics Ph.D. from Indiana University, he served as dean for general education, interim vice chancellor for academic affairs, senior information technology officer, and founder and director of the Institute for Academic Technology (a UNC/IBM alliance).
First at UNC and now at SunGard Higher Education, Graves has helped pioneer technology-enabled strategies for measurably improving upon and accounting for institutional performance in tertiary education, especially academic performance. On this theme, he has published 80+ articles and books, given hundreds of invited presentations, and advised hundreds of institutions.
Graves is currently a co-founding board member of the National Center for Academic Transformation, the IMS Global Learning Consortium, and the Alliance for Higher Education Competitiveness. He formerly served on the boards of EDUCAUSE, the Coalition for Networked Information, and CAUSE. He helped launch Internet2 and EDUCAUSE’s National Learning Infrastructure Initiative (now the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative) and chaired the latter's planning committee from 1994-2004. He also served on the Tenth Anniversary Commission of the Council for Higher Education Accreditation and has participated recently in other national advisory groups convened by, for example, the U.S. Department of Education, the Lumina Foundation, and Innovate-Educate New Mexico.
While on leave from UNC in 1998-2000, Graves founded and directed the nonprofit Collegis Research Institute. He then retired from UNC in 2000 to found (and chair the board of) Eduprise, an academic technology services firm which subsequently merged with Collegis. The resulting privately held company was acquired in 2004 by publicly traded SunGard Data Systems and is now part of privately held SunGard Higher Education, the world’s largest technology-related business focused solely on tertiary education and technology-enabled strategies for improving its efficacy and efficiency.
