Dr. Ed Schrader

Ed L. Schrader is the president of Brenau University, a university and women's college in Gainesville, Georgia established in 1878. He is a geologist by profession.

He is a native of Mississippi. He received a B.S. in geology, with a minor in chemistry, from Millsaps College (Jackson, Mississippi) in 1973. In 1975 he received an M.S. degree from the University of Tennessee. He earned a Ph.D. in geochemistry from Duke University in 1977.

From 1978 to 1980 he taught at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, then worked for several corporations including Chevron Resources Company, J. M. Huber Corporation, United Catalysts/Sud-Chemie A.G., and Diversified Minerals Corporation (president, 1987–88). He taught at Millsaps College for twelve years, starting in 1988 as assistant professor of geology. In 1992 he became chair of the Geology Department, and from 1995 to 2000 he was Associate Dean of Sciences and Professor of Geology. From 2000 to 2005 he served as president of Shorter University in Rome, Georgia. Since 2005 he has been president of Brenau University.

Schrader has written extensively for both academic and non-academic publications. He has authored 64 scholarly presentations and 34 peer-reviewed publications. He also has served as associate editor for Environmental Geology, an international scientific journal. Schrader is a founding member of the Phi Kappa Phi honor society at Brenau and of the Mississippi Alpha Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa at Millsaps.

Since Schrader’s arrival, the university has experienced a more than 30 percent growth in enrollment, expanded facilities significantly, and added four terminal degrees and other graduate programs. Brenau expanded its footprint from the historic 55-acre campus in Gainesville to the Brenau East facility about a mile from the main campus and in 2013 to the Brenau Downtown Center on the city square. A new athletics complex about a mile from campus is scheduled for first phase completion in 2015. In addition to ongoing operations on the Kings Bay Navy Submarine Base in southeast Georgia, campuses in Augusta and Norcross have been expanded significantly; Brenau also added a campus in Fairburn; and by the end of 2014 had completed plans and build-out for an additional location. On the historic campus, construction was scheduled to be completed in 2015 on four new sorority houses, a large general residence hall and large, state-of-the-art human anatomy lab for use in undergraduate and graduate health sciences and biology studies.

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