Campus Dean and CEO, UW – Washington County
Associate Professor, Department of Geography and Geology

B.S., Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas        1982
M.S., Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas       1985
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles          1998

Paul Price was born in Lubbock, Texas. Since escaping the wind, the dust, and the prairie dogs, he has lived in San Antonio, Los Angeles, Beaver Dam, and West Bend. He received a BS and MS in geology from Texas Tech University, two degrees he parlayed into a brief stint as a programmer in Los Angeles. He made up for the short programming career by spending many years as a doctoral student in geography at UCLA. Eventually, after teaching at Santa Monica College, jouncing through the Northridge earthquake, experiencing the LA riots up close, feeling the heat of fires burn slopes behind his apartment, dodging mud flows in the canyons, and having his car broken into by people who eventually decided he had nothing to steal, migrated to Wisconsin because he heard they had blizzards. And he moved there because he followed Kristin, his future wife, from where he met her on the UCLA campus back to her home state. After moving, he found jobs teaching at UW-Parkside and UW-Oshkosh. He then quit teaching because UCLA told him he had better finish his dissertation. Luckily, just as he finished his dissertation, Cathy Helgeland, chair of the department of geography and geology and a friend of Kristin, roped him into his first position with the University of Wisconsin Colleges as at Fond du Lac. When a position came open at UWWC, she called again and Paul Price started teaching at UWWC in Fall 1997 as an ad hoc. In Fall, of 1998, the Colleges hired him on the tenure track. In 2004, he was tenured and promoted to Associate Professor. In 2008, he began teaching less and instead spent most of his time dealing with voluminous email traffic as Senate Steering chair for the UW Colleges. In 2010, he became interim Dean. And in June 2011, the Colleges appointed him as permanent Dean at UWWC. In the little time left over, he reads old Nancy Drew novels to his daughter, Kyra.