Donald A. McQuade is an English professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of several books on writing composition, American literature, and advertising.
Specifically, McQuade taught for the open admissions program, that affords any student that has received a high school diploma to enroll in its college courses, regardless of past GPA or test scores.
With respect to CUNY's Open Admissions Program, McQuade and Sandra Schor helped to create the Queens English Project.
[4] McQuade sat on several non-profit boards and was the chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) and the National Writing Project.
He went to become the co-founder and executive chairman of WriteLab in 2013, a startup focused on improving student writing located in Berkeley, California.