ACT Board of Directors

Mark D. Musick
President
Southern Regional Education Board

Mark D. Musick is president of the Southern Regional Education Board, America's first interstate compact for education. Before being selected president in 1989, Musick served as vice president, working primarily with southern state legislators, governors, higher education boards, and the staff of these groups. He came to the board from Virginia, where he served as assistant director with the Virginia State Council of Higher Education, and as an assistant in the office of the chancellor for the Virginia Community College System. Prior to that, he served in the governor’s office. He also was assistant to the executive director of the university alumni office at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

Musick has been appointed by three U.S. secretaries of education to chair the governing board of the National Assessment of Educational Progress, which directs the program known as the Nation’s Report Card. In the 1980s, he directed a project affiliated with the National Assessment that, for the first time, produced student achievement information that could be legitimately compared from one state to another. The project served as a model for the nationwide program that now involves more than forty states and is the key education accountability provision for the No Child Left Behind Act.

Musick received an M.S. in history and a bachelor’s degree in history and economics from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He also holds an honorary doctor of education degree from Piedmont College, and an honorary doctor of laws degree from Mercer University.

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