Reflections From Year One In The Chair With Morgan State’s Dena Freeman-Patton

Summary

• - Tell me about the time in your career when you began believing that you could be in the Big Chair leading an organization.
• - Are there people who have come under your tutelage who you try to empower and prepare to one day lead an organization themselves?
• - How did you navigate opportunities throughout your career?
• - From my understanding, you didn't have HBCU experience before taking this job?
• - When your mother, a Morgan State alumna, learned about the opportunity for you, did she put any pressure on you to take the position?
• - Sometimes the reality of being in the chair is different from what you expect - tell us about that experience for you at Morgan State?
• - What is your process for approaching difficult decisions as the organization's leader?
• - You mentioned reaching out to colleagues for advice when making tough decisions; how did your conversation go with Carla Williams, who had recently navigated a difficult decision at UVA?
• - What decision from your first year at Morgan do you celebrate the most?
• - What do you identify as one or two things contributing to the new energy on campus?