MCCC Welcomes New President
Dr. Patricia C. Donohue

The Mercer County Community College Board of Trustees has appointed Dr. Patricia C. Donohue as the college’s fifth president.

Dr. Patricia C. Donohue served as the sixth president of Luzerne County Community College, served as vice chancellor for education at St. Louis Community College and as acting president of St. Louis Community College at Florissant Valley. While at Harrisburg Area Community College, Dr. Donohue served as vice president of external affairs and community development, interim dean of the Lebanon Campus, and as dean of the school of business, engineering and technology. She also served as director of institutional research and planning at Lakeland Community College.

In addition to her administrative career, Dr. Donohue has teaching experience at the high school level teaching mathematics and at the university level teaching curriculum, elementary school mathematics, practicum, and supervising student teachers. Internationally, Dr. Donohue served as special consultant to Moldova for the United States State Department. She provided instruction and technical assistance to the Universitatea de Stat din Moldova to help implement the American credit system for the redesign of higher education in Moldova.

Dr. Donohue holds an A.B. in Mathematics from Duke University, an M.A. in Mathematics Education and a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction, with emphasis on Education Administration, both from University of Missouri-Kansas City.

Among her many awards are the Greater Wilkes-Barre Chamber's ATHENA Award, the Central Penn Technology Council's Outstanding Service Award and the Outstanding Leadership Award from the American Association of University Women, Harrisburg. She has been recognized by Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the World, and Who's Who in American Women, the Outstanding Young Women of America, Who's Who in the East, and Who's Who in the Midwest.

Dr. Donohue also is the recipient of the Outstanding Service Award from the American Cancer Society and the Merit Recognition Award from Harrisburg Area Community College. She received the Outstanding Service and Achievement Award from University of Missouri-Kansas City's School of Education and the Phi Delta Kappa Read Fellowship - International Education for study and travel in the Soviet Union; was named Community Woman of the Year by the American Business Women's Association (ABWA); and received the 2006 ATHENA Award from the Greater Wilkes-Barre Chamber of Business and Industry.

She is the author of "Sharing Governance: Roles and Responsibilities," presented at Columbus State Community College, Ohio; and "Assessment: A Plan, A Strategy and Tactics to Shorten the Implementation Curve," which was presented at the Consortium for Community College Development in Chicago. Additionally, she presented "Technology Planning," at the Central Association of College and University Business Officers (CACUBO) regional workshop in St. Louis; "The Community College Role in Post Secondary Technical Education," at the Missouri Governor's Conference on Higher Education; and "Integrating Occupational and Academic Education," at the Association of Community College Trustees (ACCT) 21st annual convention in Baltimore. She served as a keynote speaker on "Technology in Career Education" at the League for Innovation for Community Colleges Conference on Information Technology in October 2003 and presented "Community College Roles and Responsibilities in Economic and Development" at ACCT in Baltimore and New Orleans in 2004. As keynote speaker for the Women's Leadership Summit at Wilkes University, she presented "Developing Women's Leadership."

Dr. Donohue is a member and former president of the National Council for Workforce Education, the League for Innovation Alliance, the Presidents Academy of the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC), Society of Manufacturing Engineers, the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE), Phi Delta Kappa, and Delta Gamma Fraternity. She also is a member of the National Council of Instructional Administrators and the National Institute for Leadership Development (NILD) and has sponsored/mentored more than 50 women for national leadership training through NILD. Dr. Donohue serves as president-elect for the Board of Directors of the American Association of Women in Community Colleges. She previously served on AACC's Commission on Workforce and Economic Development.

Dr. Donohue serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the Luzerne Foundation, the Osterhout Free Library, the F.M. Kirby Center, and the Greater Wilkes-Barre Chamber of Commerce. She is a member of the Council of Presidents (COPS) of the Greater Wyoming Valley, and serves on the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of the Joint Urban Studies Center, the ACCT Advisory Committee of Presidents, the Board of the Northeast PA Technology Institute, and the Executive Committee of the Girl Scouts of Penn's Woods Council. Dr. Donohue serves on the United Way Campaign Cabinet as co-chair for education and is serving as loaned associate program chair for 2005. She is a graduate of the Leadership Wilkes-Barre Executive Leadership 2003 program and the Lackawanna Leadership Executive Program.

At the statewide level, Dr. Donohue is a member of the Pennsylvania Commission for Community Colleges (PACCC) Council of Presidents. She also is a member of the Executive Board of the Center for Advancing Partnerships in Education (CAPE).