Bachelor’s Degree: Carroll University
Master’s Degree: Case Western Reserve University
Doctorate: Marquette University
Howard Fuller, a 1962 Carroll University graduate, has spent his career working to improve educational opportunities in Milwaukee for low-income children.
In 1991, Fuller became superintendent of Milwaukee Public Schools. He founded the Institute for the Transformation of Learning at Marquette University in 1995 to provide educational options for students of low-income families. The institute was awarded nearly $36 million in grants from local and national foundations for working across systems to reform K-12 education in Milwaukee and nationally.
In addition to 25 years at Marquette, Fuller served as a senior fellow at the Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, secretary of Wisconsin’s Department of Employment Relations and director of the Milwaukee County Department of Health and Human Services.
“I have been very lucky in my life to have had great life experiences and opportunities. The education I received at Carroll has been the foundation for what I have been able to accomplish,” said Fuller, who joined Carroll’s board of trustees in 2012.
