Patrick Rossol-Allison is Associate Vice President at Arizona State University, where he leads innovation efforts of the Learning Enterprise to design and scale learning models that span learner pathways to opportunity across a lifetime - from K-12 and dual enrollment, to working learners at early, mid, and executive career stages. He oversees the Emerging Learning Solutions team and spearheads enterprise-wide initiatives and cross-cutting collaborations across ASU's 19 Schools and Colleges, and Units with the purpose of removing barriers, increasing access, and to unlock the inherent human potential of all learners regardless of background.
Previously, Patrick was Head of ASU's national hybrid college model ASU Local. In this role he completely redesigned the university experience so that students from underserved communities could pursue over 100 bachelor’s degrees in locations across the country.
Prior as Senior Program Officer at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, he invested over $30M in higher education initiatives to tackle some of the most pervasive inequities and to ensure that more students graduate from a wide range of colleges and universities in the United States. He oversaw the work of organizations including the American Institutes for Research, Harvard University, and the Aspen Institute.
Earlier in his career, Patrick created and headed the organization-wide strategy function as Executive Director of Institutional Effectiveness, Planning and Research for one of the largest community colleges in the country, Johnson County Community College. He created renown national data initiatives in the areas of student success, finance, and workforce education with over a quarter of all community colleges in the country participating. Patrick's work at JCCC was recognized and sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Patrick earned his master's degree in political science, modern history, and international law from the University of Bonn in Germany and studied at Duke University as a DAAD scholar.