Patricia Price

Patricia Price is interim provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at Queens College. Price serves as the chief academic officer of the college, reporting directly to the president.

Price has a record of administrative and teaching accomplishments. Beginning in 2017, she served as associate provost and assistant vice president for academic administration, faculty development, and research at Baruch College/CUNY. Her responsibilities included extensive work with faculty personnel decisions, such as coordinating tenure and promotion procedures, academic leaves, and special appointments; leading faculty professional development; and overseeing contract implementation, faculty workload, three-year adjunct appointments, immigration sponsorship, and system-wide faculty initiatives. As Baruch’s chief research officer, she also represented faculty research at the CUNY level.

Prior to working at Baruch, Price was dean of academic affairs at Stella and Charles Guttman Community College/CUNY, a startup institution focused on student success. As the only academic dean, she managed oversight of partnerships, community engagement, experiential learning, and budget, and developed initiatives promoting faculty scholarship, recognition, and professional development. She hired many of Guttman’s current faculty and implemented an innovative First Year Sponsor and orientation program.

Price entered administrative work with a well-established career as a scholar and teacher. A native of the Pacific Northwest, she earned a BA in business administration and an MA and PhD in geography at the University of Washington, Seattle. For 19 years before her arrival in New York, she was a professor of geography at Florida International University in Miami.

An internationally recognized urban and cultural geographer, Price is known for her scholarship on Latinx neighborhood dynamics, critical geographies of race and ethnicity, and diversity in higher education. She has authored four books and numerous journal articles. Her Dry Place: Landscapes of Belonging and Exclusion (University of Minnesota Press) is a masterly study of the relationship between place, racialized narratives, and social identity in the desert Southwest. Her research has received substantial support from the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities.