Dr. Eleanor M
Brown

Dr. Eleanor Brown joined Achieving the Dream as a leadership coach for the Tribal College and University program Project Success. Throughout her long career in higher education, she provided leadership for student services, specifically in the area of minority development, as vice president of student services in three community colleges that were Hispanic-Serving Institutions.

Dr. Brown began her administrative career as the director of financial aid at Anchorage Community College in Anchorage, Alaska, which had a large Alaska Native student population. Her experience with Alaska Native student populations and in Hispanic-Serving Institutions motivated her to focus on developing programs emphasizing the importance of providing on-going and student-friendly support services for all entering-college populations. She has facilitated the development and implementation of student services structurally organized into “one-stop” student service centers, mandatory new student orientation and academic advising services, continuous improvement of student processes and procedures, and departmental improvement plans.

From 2017 to the present, Dr. Brown, through her role as an ATD leadership coach, has been supporting the Achieving the Dream special grant project with the Tribal Colleges to increase student success, enrollment management systems and processes, and organizational development.

How has education changed your life/your family?

As a thirty-year-old single mother of three children with minimal job skills when I entered college, education allowed me to personally evolve, build a life for the four of us, and model resilience and perseverance.