Dr. Patrice Greene has over a decade of experience in higher education. As a practitioner, she has expertise in career services, college advising, housing and residential education, recruitment, and fraternity and sorority life. Her research experience covers qualitative, mixed-method, and archival projects, exploring undergraduate and graduate student experiences, community and support networks for students, Black women’s experiences in higher education, virtual learning, and HBCU STEM faculty and student success. Before joining NCEED, Dr. Greene was a postdoctoral scholar at the University of the District of Columbia. She also has prior experience as a grant writing consultant with The Black Mill, supporting Black-led nonprofits with writing and submitting federal, nonprofit, and corporate grants.

Dr. Greene has served as a reviewer for the Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, and has co-taught, facilitated, and assisted with courses on career readiness, self-advocacy, race and diversity in higher education, and urban education. Dr. Greene’s most recent scholarship is a book chapter entitled, Strategies for Providing Grace and Space on the Journey of Multidimensional Sisterhood in the Academy, which explores how three Black women doctoral students retained one another during the global pandemic. Dr. Greene has a Ph.D. in Higher Education, Student Affairs, and International Education Policy from the University of Maryland, College Park.

Pillar and Grant Support: SEL & Psychological Well-being; Exploring the Impact of Faculty Beliefs & Practices on the Experiences and Achievement of Students in STEM Courses @ HBCUs