Laurie Van Egeren

University of Minnesota

Laurie A. Van Egeren, PhD, is the University of Minnesota’s Vice Provost for Public Engagement. In this role, she is responsible for the facilitation and support of university-community partnerships for research, teaching, and service in collaborative, mutually beneficial ways for community-driven issues, including those that contribute to broader impacts. She is also the president of the Engagement Scholarship Consortium, the premier national organization focused on the building capacity among faculty, staff, students, and institutions for community-engaged scholarship.

Dr. Van Egeren has conducted engaged research funded by NSF, NIH, state government, and foundations, including state evaluations of afterschool programs and child care consultation programs; early childhood science education; youth-driven spaces; parent programs for children diagnosed with autism; and programs to increase STEM college entry among African-American students.

She is on the leadership team of the NSF-funded Center for Advancing Research Impacts in Society (ARIS) and the Executive Committee of the Commission for Economic and Community Development of the Association for Public and Land-grant Universities. She has a master’s in clinical child/family psychology and a PhD in developmental psychology from Michigan State University.