Edwin Driver

Edwin Driver received his B.A. from Temple University, his M.A., in 1947, and his Ph. D., in 1956, from the University of Pennsylvania. In 1948, Edwin at Massachusetts State College, Amherst, and Ruby Pernell at the University of Minnesota became the first Black faculty at a White land-grant university. He was a professor at the University of Massachusetts until retiring in 1987. He was a visiting professor at many schools, including Smith College, Brandeis University, the University of Wisconsin, the University of Arizona, and the University of California, Los Angeles, several times. After retiring from the University of Massachusetts, he served as Visiting Distinguished Professor at the University of Vermont, from 1989-1991. He received three Fulbright-Hays grants to teach in India (Nagpur University and the University of Madras) and Trinidad-Tobago (University of the West Indies). His other professional employment was as a consultant to OECD (the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development), Paris; and a United Nations employee to create a Center for Population and Economic Development for Iran and the Gulf States.