Dale Whittaker

As a Senior Advisor in Postsecondary Success at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Dale is focused on making more degrees possible for more people with greater equity. Previously an executive at several of the nation’s largest and fastest-growing public research universities, Dale helps higher education leaders navigate thorny issues including equity and bias, digital transformation, scale and growth, student success, faculty productivity and scholarship, external partnerships, strategic finance, institutional change and transforming teaching and learning.

Having spent time in roles from professor to provost to president, Dale has led and sustained change in large, complex universities over long periods of time. He is pragmatic, insightful, creative and brings the long view.