Matthew Rascoff is an education innovation leader who has worked across sectors to democratize access to knowledge and opportunity.
He joined Stanford University in 2021 as the inaugural Vice Provost for Digital Education and as a lecturer in management at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Rascoff and the Stanford Digital Education team have pioneered a model of mission-driven digital learning that accelerates social mobility for students who have been historically underserved by higher education.
Previously, Rascoff was Associate Vice Provost for Digital Education and innovation at Duke University, where he founded and led Duke Learning Innovation. His team led the Covid-19 emergency remote teaching response at Duke and at Duke Kunshan Universities.
Before Duke, he was Vice President and founder of the Office of Learning Technology and Innovation for the University of North Carolina system, where he built UNC Online, a statewide cross-registration network for online courses.
Earlier in his career, Rascoff launched JSTOR’s first international office in Berlin and helped provide access to scholarly journals and books to institutions across Europe. He led product teams at Wireless Generation (now Amplify) and built and launched their product development center in Durham, North Carolina.
Previously, he helped create the strategy group at ITHAKA, an incubator of higher education technology ventures (now Ithaka S+R). His work experience also includes Google, where he worked on the Book Search project to digitize all the world’s published works.
After undergraduate studies at Columbia University, he did graduate work at Bogazici University in Istanbul on a Fulbright Scholarship and later earned an MBA from Harvard Business School.