Dr. Edison O. Jackson¹ is the former President of Medgar Evers College

Medgar Evers College

Medgar Evers College is a senior college of The City University of New York.Medgar Evers College was officially established in 1970 through cooperation from educators and community leaders in central Brooklyn...

. He was appointed September 1, 1989, succeeding Dr. Leo A. Corbie (Acting, 1987-1989), and was followed by Dr. William L. Pollard in August, 2009. He received the Bachelor of Science degree in Zoology, and the Master of Arts degree in Counseling from Howard University

Howard University

Howard University is a federally chartered, non-profit, private, coeducational, nonsectarian, historically black university located in Washington, D.C., United States...

, and the Doctorate in Education from Rutgers University

Rutgers University

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey , is the largest institution for higher education in New Jersey, United States. It was originally chartered as Queen's College in 1766. It is the eighth-oldest college in the United States and one of the nine Colonial colleges founded before the American...

with academic emphasis on the philosophy, function, role and administration of urban educational institutions.