Eddie Cole

Eddie R. Cole is a professor of education and history at UCLA. A historian of higher education, Cole’s research explores race and social movements on college campuses; power and systems of power; and the outsized influence of colleges and universities on American society.

His award-winning first book, “The Campus Color Line: College Presidents and the Struggle for Black Freedom” (Princeton University Press, 2020), is a history of how academic leaders shaped racial policies and practices during the mid-twentieth century.