User:Edward C Marshall

Born Edward Clark Marshall III in Cincinnati, Ohio. Edward C. Marshall was raised in northern Michigan and at age 11 began working on neighboring farms. He attended Leland Public School in Leland, Michigan from kindergarten through 12th grade, with one year spent as an exchange student living in the Republic of South Africa in 1980-81.

He is the former Director of Special Projects at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina, where he managed finance, development and construction of two major projects totaling $82 million, including the David E. Shi Center for Sustainability, a major project that incorporated new technology, energy efficiency and sustainable construction on Furman’s campus. While at Furman, he also built and opened The Woodlands at Furman, a continuing care retirement community (CCRC) at Furman University. Marshall worked to develop several major community collaborations in Greenville, South Carolina centered on education including the organization of Greenville’s web of five child development centers in former elementary schools and the Center for Developmental Services (CDS) www.cdservices.org.

Edward C. Marshall started his career working in The White House correspondence unit for President George H.W. Bush. Later in the administration he was a political appointee in the U.S. Department of Labor. Transitioning from government, Marshall was hired as the national Director of Tax and Fiscal Affairs at the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC of America).

His education and interest in the world started in high school where he was selected as a Rotary Youth Exchange Student. In South Africa, he lived with both Afrikaans and English speaking families in two interior cities, Klerksdorp where he attended Milner High School and Bloemfontein, where he attended Brebner High School. In 1987, he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in Third World Studies (concentration on Africa and Middle East) from the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. Later in life, he earned a Master of Arts (M.A.) degree in Education with a social studies concentration from Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina.