Michael A. Gerber
President, Atlanta Regional Council for Higher Education, Georgia

Michael A. Gerber has served as president of the Atlanta Regional Council for Higher Education since 1998. ARCHE brings together the region’s public and private colleges and universities to share resources and raise awareness of higher education’s scope and impact. He has built ARCHE into a central source of information about the collective enterprise of higher education in the region for use in economic development, business, government and community service.

Prior to joining ARCHE, Gerber served for eight years as president of the Connecticut Conference of Independent Colleges, an organization which represents private colleges and universities.  As part of his responsibilities with the Connecticut college group, Gerber held the position of executive director of the Connecticut Higher Education Supplemental Loan Authority, a quasi-state agency that makes loans to college students and their parents.  He also was responsible for creation of the Connecticut Independent College and University Institute for Research and Public Service and served as a gubernatorial appointee on the New England Board of Higher Education.

Gerber began his career by serving for 11 years as vice president of the Maryland Association of Independent Colleges and Universities. 

Currently, Gerber is a member of the Grady Hospital Board of Visitors, the Georgia Partnership for Excellence in Education, the Georgia Chamber of Commerce Education and Workforce Development Committee, and both the Bioscience and Technology Leadership Councils of the Metro Atlanta Chamber.  He is a past member of the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (the southeast region’s higher education accrediting body), served on the Healthy Community Advisory Committee to the Fort McPherson Planning Local Redevelopment Authority, and has been named a “notable Georgian” by Georgia Trend magazine. Gerber also is one of the inaugural recipients of Business to Business magazine’s IMPACT Leader Awards recognizing his work at ARCHE.

He is a native of Baltimore and a graduate summa cum laude from the University of Maryland at College Park with a bachelor of arts in government and politics.

More information regarding ARCHE and its member institutions may be found at www.atlantahighered.org.