Dr. Deborah Reid Bryant has served
for nearly three decades as an administrator in higher education. She has
worked at community colleges, private institutions, and several
universities in New York, Louisiana, and Maryland. Dr. Bryant’s
administrative, program planning, career and academic advising knowledge
and skills have been used in the areas of both academic and student
affairs. Her functional areas of responsibilities include undergraduate
education, career development, student development/activities, minority
student services, and community affairs.
Dr. Bryant served as the Assistant Dean for
Undergraduate Education in the College of Computer, Mathematical, and
Physical Sciences at The University of Maryland at College Park. In this
role she oversaw scholarships, recruitment, orientation, advising, and
retention programs. She also co-directed the Louis Stokes Alliance for
Minority Participation/National Science Foundation project, a $1.5 million
five year project created to support the recruitment and retention of
students of color who are underrepresented in science, mathematics and
engineering.
Dr. Bryant also served as the Associate
Director of the Career Development Center at the University of Maryland
College Park. As the Associate Director, she provided managerial
leadership for a centralized career planning and placement center for a
campus of 38,000 students. Other responsibilities included management of
the counseling and outreach programs that served 15,000 clients per year.
She also recruited, hired, trained, supervised, and evaluated the
counseling staff. In addition to other campus-wide committee involvement,
Dr. Bryant served on numerous search committees as either a member or
chair.
Raised in upstate New York, Dr. Bryant earned
a Bachelor degree from Boston University in Physical Education, Health and
Recreation in 1972, a Master degree from the State University of New York
at Brockport in Counseling in 1975, and a Ph.D from The University of
Maryland at College Park in Higher Education, Policy Planning, and
Administration in 1998.
