Laurie Van Egeren

University of Minnesota

Biographical Abstracts

As the University of Minnesota's chief public engagement officer, Vice Provost Laurie Van Egeren oversees the university's systemwide public engagement agenda. Her portfolio includes management of the university’s Office for Public Engagement, as well as oversight of its three reporting units: the Center for Community Engaged Learning, Center for Urban and Regional Affairs, and Robert J. Jones Urban Research and Outreach-Engagement Center.

Prior to coming to the university in October of 2023, she was at Michigan State University’s Office of University Outreach and Engagement for more than two decades, serving as the assistant provost for university-community partnerships and adjunct professor in human development and family studies. She is recognized as an experienced leader of public and community engagement in higher education and a scholar in the field of public engagement and evaluation methods for community-engaged research, particularly around early childhood and out-of-school time programs.

Vice Provost Van Egeren is president of the Engagement Scholarship Consortium, a member of the executive committee of the Association for Public and Land-grant Universities’ Commission on Economic and Community Development, and a co-PI for the National Science Foundation-funded Center for Advancing Research Impacts in Society. She is co-editor of the upcoming Handbook of Broader Impacts from MSU Press. She holds a doctorate in developmental psychology and a master’s degree in child/family clinical psychology from MSU.

Areas of Expertise

• Broader impacts and societal impact of research
• Program evaluation
• Early childhood programs
• Out-of-school time programs
• Institutionalization of engagement