Dr. Whitmore’s Team

Dr. Jerry Whitmore, Jr., is an assistant professor in higher education administration at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development and a faculty affiliate researcher of the Wheelock Center for Future Readiness.

Dr. Whitmore’s scholarly work focuses on the scholarship of higher education, educational history, leadership, and sociology. He is the lead researcher of the FAIR Student Loans project, which works on fostering accessibility and inclusive reform in student loan forgiveness.

Previously, Dr. Whitmore was a UW-Madison faculty associate who designed leadership and mentoring activities along with a course (HHMI grant funded) helping first-year, first-generation, and underrepresented minority undergraduate students succeed in science/STEM.