College of Michigan, Michigan Technological College, Wayne State College,
and Indiana University, and is a 4-time Grammy Award nominee in the perfect 
Album Notes category. Ivey currently serves as senior 
advisor to the Mike Curb Basis, as a trustee of the Washington, D.C.-based Middle for American Progress, and is visiting research scholar to 
the Indiana College Division of Folklore and Ethnomusicology.
He graduated from the College of Michigan with 
a degree in American historical past in 1966, acquired a grasp's diploma in folklore and ethnomusicology from Indiana College Bloomington in 1970, and grew to become a Ph.D.
From 2010-2015, Open Humanities Press collaborated with the University of Michigan Library's MPublishing branch 
to fund the production of monographs. Its intention is to boost awareness of open access publishing in the humanities and to offer promotional 
and technical support to open access journals that have been invited by OHP's editorial oversight group to hitch the collective.
He returned to Washington in 2007 as staff leader in arts and humanities for the Barack Obama presidential 
transition. 1994 President Bill Clinton appointed Ivey to the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities.
He was the seventh chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, and is a previous chairman of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.