In Short
For three decades, Russell Edgerton was a behind-the-scenes change agent for undergraduate reform
The strategies he deployed aimed to bring innovations to scale
Today’s undergraduate reform landscape reflects efforts he prompted
That landscape retains many of the structures and norms that frustrated earlier reformers.
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Ted Marchese
Ted Marchese served 14 years as a faculty member and administrator at Barat College, 18 years as Vice President of the American Association for Higher Education (AAHE), and 20 years as a search consultant for Academic Search and AGB Search. At AAHE, he was Change Magazine’s Executive Editor 1984–2000. Marchese thanks Ken Fischer, Pat Hutchings, Lou Albert, Ellen Wert, and Peter Ewell for help with this essay.