Ronald Woods
Emeritus Professor
Expertise: Race, Public policy and the law, Higher education and non-profit governance, Academic program design, Institutional equity and strategic planning, Urban transformation, Community capacity building and intellectual capital formation
About
Ronald C Woods, a former poverty law attorney, is an Emeritus Professor of Africology and African American Studies at Eastern Michigan University. He previously served administratively at Eastern Michigan as an academic department head and Director of the Institute for the Study of Children, Families and Communities. With an emphasis upon race, public policy and the law, he has taught at the University of Michigan and was the Michael O. Sawyer Visiting Professor of Constitutional Law and Politics in the Maxwell School at Syracuse University. He has served as a consultant in numerous educational, museum, governmental and entrepreneurial venues.
Professor Woods has a background in governance in higher education and non-profit organizations and agencies, having served, illustratively, on the Board of Trustees of Wittenberg University, as President of the Board of Directors of the African American Cultural and Historical Museum of Washtenaw County, and as President of the Ann Arbor Housing Commission. Engagement in community transformation, public policy, ecclesiastical social justice, the choral arts, and intellectual capital growth are cornerstones of his professional and civic portfolio.
