Keynote Speaker: Dr. Paula Groves Price
Thursday, Jan. 22
5:30 p.m.
CUB Senior Ballroom, WSU Pullman and Livestreamed
In addition to the keynote, Thursday’s celebration will also include musical performances by God’s Harmony, a reading from the Campus Civic Poet, and the presentation of the Distinguished Service Awards.
Speaker’s Biography
Paula Groves Price is a Professor and Dean of the College of Education at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, the nation’s largest Historically Black College and University (HBCU). She is also the founding dean of N.C. A&T’s Laboratory School, Aggie Academy, a STEAM focused public elementary school for grades 3-5 in Greensboro, NC.
Dr. Groves Price is the recipient of the 2024 Zenobia L. Hikes Distinguished Career Award (Administrator) from the Faculty Women of Color in the Academy, and is a recipient of the 2023 Joseph R. Biden Lifetime Achievement Award and Presidential Medal in honor of her lifelong commitment to building stronger communities in the nation. She is past president of the American Educational Studies Association (AESA), and her scholarship is centered in Culturally Responsive and Sustaining Pedagogies, Educator and Leader Preparation, Critical STEM Education, and Qualitative Research Methodologies. She has published numerous articles and book chapters, and is the editor of the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Race and Education (2024). She also currently serves as an editor for Professing Education, an academic journal from the Society of Professors of Education. S
Dr. Groves Price served Washington State University as a faculty member for 19 years (2000-2020) in the Department of Teaching and Learning, and was a founding faculty member of the Cultural Studies and Social Thought in Education PhD Program. She also served as Associate Dean of Diversity and International Engagement in the College of Education, Sport, and Human Sciences, and was the inaugural Scholar in Residence in the Elson S. Floyd Cultural Center, helping to establish the vision and programming for the center.
Dr. Groves Price earned a PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in Social Foundations of Education, and BAs from the University of California Berkeley in Social Welfare and Interdisciplinary Field Studies.