Advisory Board of Governors
Molly Broad
President, American Council on Education
Molly Corbett Broad is the president of the American Council on Education (ACE) which is the nation's unifying voice for higher education. ACE serves as a consensus leader on key higher education issues and seeks to influence public policy through advocacy, research, and program initiatives.
Prior to serving as president of the ACE, Ms. Broad served as President of the 16-campus University of North Carolina from July 1997 to December 2005. An economist, Broad came to UNC from the California State University system, where she had served as senior vice chancellor for administration and finance, and as executive vice chancellor and chief operating officer from 1993 until her election as UNC President.
Earlier in her career, Ms. Broad had served as the chief executive officer for Arizona's three-campus university system and in a succession of administrative posts at Syracuse University, where she was manager of the Office of Budget and Planning, Director of Institutional Research, and Vice President for Government and Corporate Relations.
In 1976, she took a one-year leave of absence to serve as deputy director of the New York State Commission on the Future of Postsecondary Education, a blue-ribbon panel charged with evaluating the organizational structure and financing of the state's two public university systems.
Active in an array of professional and civic organizations, Ms. Broad has written and spoken widely on strategic planning for higher education, emerging technologies, and K-16 partnerships. She is chair of the National Association of State Universities and Land-grant Colleges (NASULGC) board of directors and past president for the International Council for Distance Education. She holds seats on the boards and executive committees of the Business-Higher Education Forum, the National Council on Competitiveness, the National Association of University System Heads, MCNC, and RTI International. She also serves on the boards of the North Carolina Biotechnology Center and the North Carolina Economic Development Board. She is the State Higher Education Executive Officer (SHEEO) and sits on advisory boards of the Mellon Foundation and the Association of Governing Boards Presidents' Council. A member of the First Centenary Consultative Committee for Fudan University in Shanghai, China, she also serves on the Parsons Corporation Board of Directors.
A native Pennsylvanian and the daughter of two public school teachers, Ms. Broad earned a General Motors Scholarship to Syracuse University, where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1962 with a baccalaureate degree in economics from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. She holds a master's degree in the field from Ohio State University.
Ms. Broad and her husband, Robert W. Broad, have two adult sons.
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