Ph.D. in Sociology, City University of New York, Graduate School and the University Center; MA in Sociology, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada; BA (with distinction) in Sociology, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada Gregory M. Anderson is the Dean of the Morgridge College of Education at the University of Denver and a tenured Associate Professor in Education. Before coming to DU in 2009, Dr. Anderson was an Associate Professor at Columbia University's Teachers College, Program in Higher and Postsecondary Education.

In 2006, Anderson was granted an extended leave from Teachers College to become the higher education policy program officer for the Ford Foundation in New York. He was responsible for overseeing one of the largest portfolios at the Foundation featuring both international and domestic higher education grants. Anderson also sat on executive committees of multi-foundation partnerships and foundation-wide initiatives involving the United States, Africa, Central and Latin America, and Asia.

In 2008, he was appointed by the Vice-President of the Foundation's Knowledge, Creativity and Freedom Program Division to lead a strategic planning team responsible for developing a new vision for the US and international higher education programming. Anderson earned a PhD in sociology from the Graduate Center at the City University of New York and is currently a member of the editorial board for the Review of Higher Education.