Dr. Glenda Prime currently serves as the Dean of the School of Education and Urban Studies (SEUS) at Morgan State University. SEUS houses three departments: Advanced Studies, Leadership and Policy; Teacher Education and Professional Development; and Family and Consumer Sciences. The school offers both graduate and undergraduate degree programs, and currently produces the largest number of doctoral degrees of any other department in the university.

Glenda Prime holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry, Biology and Statistics, the post-graduate diploma in Science Education, and the Master of Arts and Ph.D. in Education, from the University of the West Indies in St. Augustine, Trinidad. With more than 25 years of research and publication experience Dr. Prime has received international recognition leading to numerous invited presentations and keynote addresses at scholarly venues in the UK and several other European countries. Her publications address topics in technology education, mathematics education, science education. and the doctoral preparation of science educators.

Her most recent publication is an edited volume titled “Centering Race in the STEM Education of African American K-12 Learners.” In this volume, Dr. Prime advances the notion of “race-visible pedagogy “ in which she advocates for placing the racialized experiences of African American learners at the center of their learning experiences in science.