Shirley McBay

Dr. Shirley Mathis McBay (born May 4, 1935, Bainbridge, Georgia) is the founder and former president of the Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Network, a non-profit dedicated to improving minority education. She was the Dean for Student Affairs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1980 to 1990. She was the first African-American to receive a PhD from the University of Georgia (1966, Mathematics).

McBay received a BA in chemistry from Paine College in 1954. An MS in chemistry (1957), MS in mathematics (1958) from Atlanta University. And a PhD in mathematics from the University of Georgia in 1966. Her PhD was advised by Thomas Roy Brahana with a dissertation on The Homology Theory of Metabelian Lie Algebras.

McBay spent 15 years at Spelman College as a faculty member and administrator. She was at the National Science Foundation for 5 years serving as a program director. She then worked for 10 years at MIT as the Dean for Student Affairs. 30 months of this time included being the director of the QEM Project, a study of minority education problems. The QEM Project was the impetus for the Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Network which McBay founded and was president of from 1990 to 2016.

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