According to data from the Clarion course catalogs, Pamela Gent was an employee at Clarion from 1988-2022. (She retired in 2022 as Provost of Clarion University of Pennsylvania.) Most of her service to the university was as a faculty member in the Special Education and Rehabilitative Sciences department. She earned a B.S. in Education from Youngstown State University, and a M.Ed. and Ph.D. from Kent State University.