Dr. Joyce Taylor Gibson, recently retired, spent more than three decades in higher education administration with a focus on student belonging and access to education.
Dr. Gibson’s career in higher education has focused on issues of organizational development, equity, leadership development, and community partnerships. Gibson recently retired from serving as Interim Vice President of Academic and Student Affairs at Roxbury Community College in Boston for almost three years. Her tenure in higher education has encompassed administrative roles in academic and student affairs, in public and private institutions for over 30 years, with social justice as her lens. She is known as a fair and tenacious problem-solver who is open to learning in every situation. Though she prefers administration to teaching, she earned tenure as an Associate Professor of Education in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell and there served as Associate Vice Chancellor responsible for Enrollment Management and Academic Services. She served nine years as Dean of the Lewiston Auburn College at the University of Southern Maine, where she also taught online in the Department of Leadership Studies and continued her research on women’s leadership.
Dr. Gibson earned her Ph.D. in Educational Administration from the University of Florida, her M.A. in Rehabilitation Counseling from George Washington University, and her B.S. in Psychology from Howard University. She is an avid gardener and book lover.
