Leah P. Hollis, Ed.D., Associate Professor at Morgan State is a noted national and international expert on workplace bullying. Her most recent book, The Coercive Community College: Bullying and its Costly Impact on the Mission to Serve Underrepresented Populations, is an extension of her work on bullying in higher education where she reveals that workplace bullying occurs at an even higher rate in higher education. The study also offers solutions for individuals, middle managers, and executive leadership.
Dr. Hollis has had an extensive career in higher education administration where she has held senior leadership and faculty posts. Dr. Hollis has taught at Northeastern University, the New Jersey Institute of Technology, and Rutgers University. She is the President and Founder of Patricia Berkly LLC, a diversity training and consulting group. Her consultancy work reflects on the diversity and innovation that emerge from a culture of inclusion.
Leah Hollis attended Rutgers for her undergrad through a Volley Ball scholarship—she earned a NCAA Division I scholarship to Rutgers, where she started in all 106 of her team’s games during her freshman season. She was recognized as a scholar athlete by Collegian Magazine and featured in Black Collegian Magazine. However, after long conversations with her high school coach, who always emphasized academics, at the end of her sophomore year at Rutgers she rescinded her scholarship so she could take a double major and go to graduate school.
After graduating Rutgers she held a variety of posts which included serving on the executive board of the National Association of Academic Advisors for Athletes where she led a team that rewrote the organization’s national handbook. In 2001, she was the presidential appointment to the Director of Academic Support Services for Student Athletes at Rutgers.