Laura Niesen de Abruña

Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, Metropolitan State University of Denver

Dr. Laura Niesen de Abruña, Ph.D. is the Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs at Metropolitan State University of Denver.  She has served as provost for four other institutions of higher learning: Dominican University; York College of Pennsylvania; Sacred Heart University; and Roger Williams University.  Additionally, she is the Director and Principal Investigator for the Digital Fellows Project for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Dr. Niesen de Abruña received a M.A. and the Ph.D. in English from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and a M. S. Ed. in higher education management from the University of Pennsylvania.