Profile

As program administrator, Patrice coordinates CAE programs and events in collaboration with CAE faculty and staff, thereby providing resources to enhance and support the work of faculty and the academic departments. She coordinates CAE site visits, manages the CAE library, maintains program statistics, participates in grant-writing, edits and designs the CAE newsletter, provides triage for callers with online course issues, and manages the CAE web site. In addition to her CAE responsibilities, Patrice serves as Co-Chair of the President’s Commission on the Status of Women, and is a certified notary public. As a Peace Corps volunteer (1988-90), Patrice worked as a teacher-trainer in Belize, Central America after earning her BS in Education at PSU in 1988. She currently edits the monthly newsletter for her Quaker Friends Meeting, and volunteers for two nonprofit organizations: Donate Life Northwest, and the Oregon Council on Multiracial Affairs. Patrice is a member of Phi Kappa Phi, and a double alumna of Portland State University having also earned an MS in Publishing in 2008.