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Dr. Oliver G. McGee III is a teacher, a researcher, an administrator, and an advisor to government, corporations and philanthropy. He is professor of mechanical engineering and former Vice President for Research and Compliance at Howard University, serving as the chief research officer of the 140-year institution, and as a Cabinet-level executive reporting to the Howard University President. 

Oliver McGee is former Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs of the United Negro College Fund (UNCF), Inc. The UNCF is the nation's largest, oldest, most successful and comprehensive minority higher education cooperative financial security and assistance philanthropic organization. 

Oliver McGee was Professor and former Chair (2001-2005) of the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering & Geodetic Science at Ohio State University. He is the first African-American to hold a professorship and a departmental chair leadership in the century-and-a-quarter history of Ohio State University's engineering college. Dr. McGee has also held several professorships and research positions at Georgia Institute of Technology and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 

Oliver McGee is the former United States (U.S.) Deputy Assistant Secretary of Transportation for Technology Policy (1999-2001) at the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) and former Senior Policy Advisor (1997-1999) in The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. McGee is a 2012-13 American Council on Education Fellow at UCLA's Office of the Chancellor Gene Block, and an American Association of State Colleges & Universities' (AASCU) Millennium Leadership Initiative (MLI) Fellow, educational leadership and management development programs for prospective university chancellors and presidents.

 

Oliver McGee is an American social, technological, educational, economic, and political (STEEP) analyst, bi-partisan STEEP strategist, and black moderate-conservative for STEEP empowerment activist. He has provided public advocacy on capital, technology, and U.S. competitiveness strategies for several political campaigns, including Hillary for President 2008, McCain-Palin 2008, and Romney-Ryan 2012 campaigns. McGee has been an on-air guest commentator for Fox News, CNN, and Newsmax Media. McGee’s STEEP commentary has been published by Fox News, CNN, Newsmax Media, ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, Raycom News Network, and Christian Science Monitor. McGee is a regular contributor to the nationally-syndicated Red Eye Radio, and CBS Philly Talk Radio 1210.

Writings:

Oliver McGee has published several books (available at Amazon.com and OliverMcGee.org) discussing social, technological, educational, economic, and political (STEEP) impacts of society across government, university, industry and philanthropy. His work includes:

Jumping The Aisle: How I became a Black Republican in the Age of Obama

Bridging The Black Research Gap: On Integrated Academic and Research Capacity Building at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs)

Future of African American Men & Boys: Promoting the Saving, Transforming and Empowering of African American Men and Boys for the Betterment of American Society

Confessions From The Balcony: A Perspective of Minority Leadership Inside a Majority Institution

Building Systems Analysis and Design: A Practical Overview of Structural Engineering Considerations (with Michael I. Owings, P.E., S.E.)


Awards and Honors:

1991 National Science Foundation (NSF) Presidential Young Investigator Award; Special Recognition by 119th General Assembly of the State of Ohio as Ohio's Finest Citizen (1991); 1993 NASA Faculty Award for Research, Council for Advancement & Support of Education (CASE) Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching's 1995 State of Georgia Professor of the Year; U.S. Black Engineer Magazine's 1996 Black Engineer of the Year Award, Education College-Level; The University of Arizona Alumni Association Distinguished Citizen Award (1997); U.S. Senior Executive Service (1999); 2000 U.S. Secretary of Transportation’s Partnership for Excellence Award; Science Spectrum Magazine’s “Fifty (50) Most Important Blacks in Research Science” for 2004, Science Spectrum Magazine's "Top Minorities in American Research Science" List for 2005; NSF Advisory Committee for Engineering (1998-2002); American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) Millennium Leadership Initiative (MLI) Fellow; 2012-13 American Council on Education (ACE) Fellow 

Media Relations:

CNN's Early Start: Was national security at risk as a result of Petraeus affair? http://ow.ly/febFy, 11/11/12 appearance at 5:40ET & 6:40ET
America Now with Andy Dean, 9/6/12 appearance
Fox & Friends Weekend, Fox News Channel, 9/16/12 appearance with Tucker Carlson and Peter J. Johnson (WATCH INTERVIEW) 
Red Eye Radio, 9/27/12 appearance with Eric Harley and Gary McNamara (LISTEN) 
Fox 5 News DC, 10/9/12 appearance with Tony Perkins (WATCH - PART 1) (PART 2) 
The Monica Crowley Show, 10/2/12 appearance
The Michael Medved Show, 10/8/12 appearance (LISTEN) 
The Mancow Muller Show, 10/15/12 appearance (LISTEN)

Extension 720 with Milt Rosenberg, 10/18/12 appearance (LISTEN) 

The Real Side Radio Show, with Joe Messina, appearance (LISTEN)

NewsMax Media, NewsMax.com, Video interview, "Former Clinton Advisor: Romney's Plan About Jobs, Growth" 10/27/12 (WATCH)

Learn more at olivermcgee.org, Oliver McGee on The HistoryMakers, and Oliver McGee on Wikipedia