Patricia Lynn Price, Ph.D.
Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs
Queens College, City University of New York
Patricia Lynn Price is an accomplished leader in higher education, with a distinguished career spanning more than three decades. Currently serving as Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs at Queens College, City University of New York, Dr. Price brings visionary leadership and operational excellence to one of the nation’s most diverse and dynamic urban campuses. Her portfolio includes oversight of the college’s full academic enterprise—ranging from curriculum and faculty affairs to budget strategy, student success, recruitment, retention, and research development. At Queens, she has galvanized momentum around cross-institutional collaboration, equity in transfer pathways, investment in faculty excellence, and the creation of structures that sustain data-informed, inclusive decision-making.
A hallmark of Dr. Price’s leadership is her ability to translate ambitious institutional goals into pragmatic, scalable systems. Under her direction, Queens College has launched a comprehensive initiative to support vertical transfer from community colleges, including the creation of a centralized Transfer Hub, guided transfer pathways, and effective cross-campus faculty collaborations. She has stewarded a multimillion-dollar academic budget, reducing structural deficits through program prioritization and strategic hiring aligned with institutional goals. In the aftermath of the pandemic, Dr. Price led the college’s return to campus, crafting policies that balanced academic continuity with community well-being.
Dr. Price’s academic career has encompassed roles at all levels of the higher education, from research-active award-winning faculty member to senior executive. At Baruch College, she served as Associate Provost and Chief Research Officer, reorganizing research operations and faculty lifecycle processes to improve outcomes and operational efficiency. As the Dean of Academic Affairs at Guttman Community College, she played a formative role in establishing the college’s academic identity, recruiting its founding faculty, and forging early transfer partnerships. Her cross-sector experience in public university systems makes her a trusted thought leader on institutional transformation, shared governance, and the faculty-administrator interface.
A widely respected scholar of cultural and urban geography, Dr. Price has published extensively on race, place, and civic identity, with work appearing in Progress in Human Geography, Cultural Geographies, and Urban Geography. She is co-author of several leading textbooks and has received competitive funding from the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Informed by her academic roots, she brings a deep commitment to the public mission of higher education, advancing research, teaching, and service that are responsive to the communities institutions serve.
Dr. Price is a trained ombudsman, a certified human subjects research professional, and a longtime mentor with the American Council on Education Fellows Program, where she also served as a Fellow. She is an active contributor to and sought-after speaker for national conversations on faculty success, conflict management, assessment, and academic planning, and continues to advise colleges and universities on creating healthy shared governance models, equity-centered leadership, and mission alignment.