Nicole Pride

Nicole M. Pride is an American academic administrator who was the twelfth president of the West Virginia State University from 2020 to 2021. She was previously the vice provost for academic strategy and operations at North Carolina A&T State University.

Life Pride is from Orange, New Jersey. She earned B.A. in business management and a B.A. economics from the North Carolina State University in 1987. She is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha. Her thesis was titled, Why Black Males Have Emerged as One of the Most Troubled Groups of American Society: Their Academic Challenge, Poverty, and Social and Economic Isolation. In 2020, she became the twelfth president of the West Virginia State University.

Pride has two sons.