Patricia Grant is dean for the Undergraduate Program at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business. Grant is passionate about student success, integrating Jesuit values into undergraduate education, and creating high-impact student experiences.

At Georgetown McDonough, she has revamped the undergraduate advising structure in the spirit of cura personalis to bolster the advisor-student relationship; expanded career trek opportunities through the McDonough Career Development Center; laid the groundwork for a young alumni advisory group; launched the Know Before You Go Transition Lab, aimed at successfully transitioning seniors into their alumni status; and contributed to many curricular innovations, including the Entrepreneurship Fellows Program and the First Year Seminar Program.

She also was instrumental in creating a variety of diversity and inclusion initiatives, including: Smart Start, a corporate partnership with PwC that equips BIPOC students with the tools for academic, personal, and professional success; and Business Undergraduates Invested in Leadership and Development (BUILD), an intensive academic and leadership development opportunity for a diverse group of business students.

Grant joined Georgetown McDonough in 2010 and has more than 25 years of experience in undergraduate, graduate, and executive education program administration. She has taught courses for undergraduate and graduate students in the areas of organizational change, case studies in higher education management, research methods, and diversity and inclusion at the University of Pennsylvania, the College of New Jersey, Temple University, and Georgetown. Additionally, she worked in the Office of Executive Education at Penn to develop and launch six master’s and doctoral programs in partnership with the Wharton School and Graduate School of Education.

Grant has presented on diversity and inclusion, student access and success, and change management at a variety of institutions and conferences including the National Undergraduate Business Symposium (NUBS), the U.S. Department of State, the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities, and the Association for the Study of Higher Education.

She holds an Ed.D. and M.S.Ed. from the University of Pennsylvania, MBA from Brown University, and an A.B. from Cornell University.