Dr. Joseph Green – Member, Board of Trustees, Goldwater Foundation
Dr. Joseph M. Green, Ph. D. is an educational access and success consultant, leader, and grant writer. Throughout his career in higher education in United States, Dr. Green has served numerous universities over the past twenty-five years. Joe’s work history includes serving as teacher and administrator at The University of North Carolina Greensboro a public R2: Doctoral Universities-High Research Activity in Greensboro, North Carolina; Marquette University a Catholic, Jesuit university, R2: Doctoral Universities-High Research Activity located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill a public research university considered a public Ivy, R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity; The University of Central Florida a public research university R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity, in Orlando Florida; North Carolina A & T State University (NCAT), a public historically black land grant doctoral granting high research activity university located in Greensboro, North Carolina.
During his tenure Dr. Green has focused much of his career preparing first-generation, low-income, and underrepresented students for post-secondary education and graduate study. Dr. Green has supervised professional staff comprised of university faculty, administrators, and graduate students. Dr. Green has been awarded over twenty-eight (28) million dollars in grants and special projects throughout his career. His scholarly work addresses mentorship, student success, development, and leadership. Joe was elected to the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Board of Education and served as a member of the State of North Carolina’s Department of Public Instructions, Advanced Placement Advisory Council. Dr. Green has provided research presentations and talks for national and international audiences throughout his career.
Dr. Green was director of four federal TRiO programs and academic support centers. A former director of the Office of Federal TRiO Programs in the Office of the Provost at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and was a member of the teaching faculty at North Carolina in its School of Education’s Culture Curriculum and Change Program. He is the author of “Your Past and the Press,” a book which focuses on the media’s impact on the presidential appointment process. Dr. Green attended graduate school at the University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota, and he holds a doctoral degree in political science and public administration from Howard University in Washington, DC.