Pamela Cheek

Vice Provost for Student Success, University of New Mexico

Pamela Cheek is vice provost for student success and professor of French at the University of New Mexico (UNM). She leads programs to improve educational opportunity and access and to enable faculty and students to thrive in the classroom. She is recognized outside of UNM for her work on the Student Experience Project (Urban Serving Universities/APLU). She earned her B.A. from Harvard University and her Ph.D. from Stanford University as a Mellon Fellow in the Humanities. Her second book received the Laura Shannon Prize in Contemporary European Studies. She enjoys biking, hiking, and paddling in the beautiful Southwest.