Detail of the Strayer University President

Dr. Michael Plater is the academic visionary for Strayer University. He fit the agenda for development, innovation and quality education that helps students for compute in nowadays global economy. Dr. Michael Plater was dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at North Carolina A&T State University before the Strayer University. While that period Dr. Michael managed more than 400 faculty and staff in 13 academic departments and 6 academic programs. He has also play the role of associate dean in the Brown University’s Graduate School and he also has the training for undergraduate management course and the capstone business policy or stragegic management class in the master of Business Administration program at the University of Florida.

He started Strayer University from 2010 as a provost and chief academic officer, and was appointed president in May 2012. Raised by a single parent, Dr. Plater learned firsthand how education transforms lives.He attended public city schools in Washington, D.C., up to the age of 14, at that period he earned a scholarship to Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire.After graduation, he went on to earn a bachelor’s degree in economics from Harvard University, an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business and a doctorate in American Studies from the College of William. Dr. Plater’s goal as president is to “Pay it Forward” – giving ahead instead of giving back – by helping make education more accessible to more people, especially to adult learners. Dr. Plater’s own efforts to pay it forward encourage Strayer University students, faculty and alumni to do the same