Dr. Monica Parrish Trent – currently an instructional dean at Montgomery College in Maryland – has been named Delaware County Community College’s new Provost and Vice President of Academic & Student Affairs.
She will start on June 18.
Dr. Trent is a highly accomplished higher education professional with more than 20 years of experience in administration, counseling, and teaching, including as an English instructor at both Montgomery College and at Brookdale Community College in Lincroft, N.J.
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“Dr. Trent’s background and experience will be invaluable,” said Dr. L. Joy Gates Black, president of Delaware County Community College.
At Montgomery College, Dr. Trent has served as the college-wide dean of the English Language for Academic Purposes (ELAP), Linguistics and Communication Studies division since 2014, overseeing more than 150 faculty and staff in three academic departments, as well as overseeing the Germantown Writing, Reading, and Language Center.
Dr. Trent will bring to Delaware County Community College valuable knowledge relevant for improving student access, success, and completion at a diverse, comprehensive, multiple-campus community college. She has extensive experience leading faculty and staff in distance and accelerated learning, use of open educational resources, program and course redesign, enrollment management, and developmental education reform.
Her experiences at Montgomery College – which serves 58,000 credit and non-credit students, with more than 500 full-time faculty members, nearly 1,200 part-time faculty members, and 1,400 professional and support staff – inform her vision of the role community colleges play in higher education.
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