Douglas Harrison leads the Division of Applied Undergraduate Studies at NYU's School of Professional Studies, where he oversees access and equity pathways for social and economic mobility for working adults, transfer students, degree completers, military affiliated learners, first-gen, and economically disadvantaged students. At NYU, he has founded the Workbased Learning Innovation Lab, launched NYU’s first apprenticeship degrees, and created a worldwide online portal of workbased problems and projects to increase access to experiential and real-world learning. Prior to NYU, Harrison founded the School of Cybersecurity and Information Technology at the University of Maryland Global Campus and has held leadership and faculty positions at Trinity Washing University in Washington DC, James Madison University, and Florida Gulf Coast University, where he served two terms as faculty senate president and a member of the Board of Trustees. He has published and presented widely on access and inclusion in online learning, assessment security, and academic integrity. He is a past director on the board of the International Center for Academic Integrity and currently serves on Turnitin's Customer Advisory Board for AI in higher education, for the Sounding Spirit Collaborative at Emory University’s Center for Digital Scholarship, the Advisory Board for the NYC Educational Training Coalition, and the Student Pathways Advisory Council for the New York City Public Schools. His scholarship has been awarded the John Kluge Residential Fellowship at the Library of Congress and the NEA’s Award for Excellence in the Academy.
