About
Mission
By leveraging innovative partnerships with a focus on systemic change, ODL identifies and develops scalable interventions and evidence-based concepts that disrupt organizational disparities, thereby enhancing organizational performance and ensuring opportunities are maximized for all members of an organization.
Our Team
Our Director & Chief Research Scientist,
Jerlando F. L. Jackson, PhD
Jerlando F. L. Jackson is the ninth Dean of the Michigan State University (MSU) College of Education, MSU Research Foundation Professor of Education, and Director and Chief Research Scientist of the Organizational Disparities Laboratory (ODL).
Internationally recognized for his pioneering work on organizational disparities, Dean Jackson has redefined how systemic inequities in higher education and the workplace are studied and addressed.
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BACKGROUND / HISTORY
The Organizational Disparities Laboratory was founded in 2022 by Jerlando F. L. Jackson, PhD at Michigan State University when he was named Dean of the College of Education. The ODL is an evolution of the work started at Wisconsin’s Equity and Inclusion Laboratory, founded by Jackson in 2010.