Patricia Gentile has been chosen as the fourth president of North Shore Community College in Danvers, Massachusetts. If her appointment is approved by the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education, she will assume the role of president on January 1. At the current time, Dr. Gentile is dean of advancement and enrollment management at the Cape May campus of Atlantic Cape Community College in New Jersey. She has been on the staff at Atlantic Cape Community College since 1999. Earlier in her career, she was an executive with the Children’s Defense Fund in Washington, D.C. and the Women’s Humane Society in Philadelphia.
Dr. Gentile is a magna cum laude graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. She holds an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a doctorate in educational leadership and higher education from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln.