President's Biographical Information
Pamela Trotman Reid, Ph.D., was appointed as the eighth President of Saint Joseph College in January, 2008. She came to Saint Joseph College from the position of Provost and Executive Vice President for Roosevelt University in Chicago. Previously she served in several leadership roles at the City University of New York's Graduate Center including Interim Provost and Senior Vice President, Associate Provost and Dean for Academic Affairs as well as Professor of Psychology. She had been the Head of the Department of Psychology at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and Director of the Office for Social and Ethical Responsibility at the American Psychological Association, and served in several roles at the University of Michigan (UM), including Research Scientist at the UM Institute for Research on Women and Gender as well as Director of the Women's Studies Program and Professor of Education and Psychology.
Dr. Reid is a developmental psychologist who, throughout her career, has worked with faculty and administrative colleagues alike to enhance academic quality and promote diversity. An active participant in scholarly organizations, Dr. Reid has held elected positions on boards and committees of the American Psychological Association (APA) and other professional organizations. She was elected President of the APA Society for the Psychology of Women and served as Chair of the APA Committee on Women in Psychology. She has been an invited speaker at scores of international, national and regional conferences, and more than two-dozen colleges and universities. She has also received several national awards, including the Distinguished Leadership Award given by the APA Committee on Women in Psychology and the Distinguished Publication Award from the Association of Women in Psychology. Since arriving in Connecticut she has received a number of honors, including being named on these lists: 100 Most Influential Blacks in the State of Connecticut by the Connecticut State Conference of the NAACP (2009, 2011), Eight Remarkable Women in Business by Hartford Business Journal (2010), and Hartford’s 50 Most Influential People by Hartford Magazine (2010). She also received a 2011 Polaris Award from Leadership Greater Hartford, and a 2011 Maria Miller Stewart Award from the Connecticut Women's Education and Legal Fund.
Dr. Reid has also been active in outreach activities in both urban and non-urban communities. She re-instituted the Higher Education Women's Network for the state of Illinois. She served as a member of the committee to create an arts high school in Chicago and participated in the Honor Circle of the Chicago Area Girl Scouts. She has also established a math and technology enrichment program for middle school girls, Gaining Options: Girls Investigate Real Life (GO-GIRL), which now operates in Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia, Washington, DC and, most recently, in the Greater Hartford area. She currently serves on the boards of the Connecticut Children's Medical Center, the Wadsworth Atheneum, the Connecticut Conference of Independent Colleges, and the Hartford Consortium for Higher Education; on the American Council on Education’s Commission on Women in Higher Education; and as a corporator of Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center.
Pam Reid holds a B.S. from Howard University, an M.A. from Temple University and a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. She is married to Dr. Irvin D. Reid, President Emeritus of Wayne State University in Detroit. Their daughter, Nicole, is a lawyer who lives with her husband and their two children, Grace and Zachary, in Saint Louis. Their son, Dexter, is a computer engineer who lives with his wife and their son Santiago in San Francisco.
