The Morning Call

Laurie McMillan

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Laurie McMillan will serve as interim dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Kutztown University, effective Jan. 14. McMillan has been with KU since 2020 as associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

While associate dean, McMillan was responsibl­e for course scheduling, program assessment and a variety of projects and initiative­s within the dean’s office that assist and support students and faculty. She and her team of principal investigat­ors were recently awarded a nearly $300,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to identify underlying drivers of systemic gender inequities affecting STEM faculty and culminate in a five-year plan to advance organizati­onal change.

Before coming to Kutztown University, McMillan spent a year as the assistant dean in Millersvil­le University’s College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. Before Millersvil­le, she chaired the Department of English and Modern Language Studies at Pace University for more than three years.

McMillan earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology from Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass. She earned a master of arts in English literature and a Ph.D. in English literature from Duquesne University

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