Brent Paterson
Dr. Brent Paterson has over 40 years of experience in higher education in a variety of roles including serving as Dean of Student Life, Associate Vice President, Vice President, and Assistant to the President/Chief of Staff. He also served as an instructional associate professor teaching graduate courses in student affairs and higher education administration at both Texas A&M University and Illinois State University.
With over 30 years of experience in university crisis response, Brent has created and coordinated incident management teams, critical incident response teams, student behavioral intervention teams, and threat assessment teams. He has contributed to the development of Emergency Operations Plans and crisis communications.
He is co-author of Crisis Management: Responding from the Heart and a contributing author in Campus Crisis Management: A Comprehensive Guide to Planning, Prevention, Response, and Recovery (First Edition), and Enough Is Enough: A Student Affairs Perspective on Preparedness and Response to a Campus Shooting. Brent is co-author of a research study that examined the impact of a crisis on the lives and careers of university leaders and responders twenty years later ("Reflections from Crisis: A Phenomenological Study of the Texas A&M Bonfire Collapse" published in the NASPA Journal).
Brent is a recipient of the D. Parker Young Award in recognition of outstanding scholarly and research contributions in the area of higher education law and judicial affairs, the Order of Fraternal Excellence Award presented to a college or university administrator who has attained and sustained an outstanding level of professional accomplishment relating to the college fraternity, and was named a NASPA Pillar of the Profession for sustained professional distinction in higher education.