Dr. Patricia Clark-Ellis

Associate Dean, College of Health & Human Services
Sacramento State

Dr. Clark-Ellis was appointed the Associate Dean of the College of Health and Human Services in Spring 2002. She has a Juris Doctor from the University of California, Davis School of Law, a Master of Science in Social Work from The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, College of Social Work and a Bachelor of Science in Social Work from Barry University, Miami Shores, Florida.

Dr. Clark-Ellis is a graduate of the Harvard Institute for Higher Education’s Management Development Program at Harvard University, Summer 2003 and a former participant of the American Council on Education, Office of Women in Higher Education Western Regional Leadership Forum, hosted by California State University, San Marcos, October 2005.

As Associated Dean, Dr. Clark-Ellis facilitates curriculum development and promotes professional development for the seven academic units in the College, coordinates all educational equity, including outreach, retention and rate of graduation and orientation and advising. Directing the New Faculty Mentoring Program and serving as the College’s Student Complaint officer are a few of her other responsibilities as Associate Dean.

Dr. Clark-Ellis is the chair of the Cooper Woodson College Enhancement Program Advisory Board at Sacramento State University. She recently was a member of the planning committee for a state-wide conference held in April 2006 at Sacramento State University, “Increasing Diversity in the Healthcare Professions.” She serves on the Board of Directors for the Sacramento Children’s Home where she is currently on two committees. The SCH, founded in 1867, focuses on treating and preventing child abuse, working with more than 1,800 families and 3,500 children in residential and community programs.

She recently authored a proposal to create the Carter G. Woodson Program, a mentoring program created to retain and graduate Sacramento State University students, particularly African American freshmen and sophomore males. The funded program was a pilot program, offered in Spring 2006. Dr. Clark-Ellis is a co-investigator for the Adolescent Obesity: Academic-Community Partnership sponsored by National Institute for Child Health and Human Development (U-13 funded, 09/05) . As a part of the grant, she is working with the largest African American church in Sacramento, California, St. Paul Baptist Church, with female teens and their parents and Hispanic teens attending Ponderosa High School and their parents, facilitating workshops.