William Prado, DBA

William (Bill) Prado, D.B.A., M.B.A. has over 20 years of experience in online education, including in administration, instruction, and course and curriculum design as former Dean of Graduate and Online Programs at Green Mountain College and Prescott College. He’s designed business courses and curricula at both colleges, as well as for public, private, and private-nonprofit higher education clients of the publishers Cengage and Pearson. Bill’s work has required an understanding of accreditation and regulatory dimensions of online education both in the USA and abroad. Bill serves on the Institutional Advisory Committee of NC-SARA and is also active in the Online Learning Consortium. His work in online education is informed by a focus on BIPOC and marginalized students’ success, including integration of diversity, equity, and inclusion dimensions rooted in his experience as a first-generation American Latinx and also as a first-generation college graduate. Following graduation with an MBA in Finance and International Business from New York University, Bill worked in banking and corporate finance for several years before becoming an educator. Bill currently teaches, and serves as capstone and dissertation advisor in, leadership, management, environmental and social performance measurement and reporting, finance, and accounting subjects at the College.