Pareena Gupta Lawrence

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• Provide both a vision for and the management of academic and co-curricular programs, including four new programs, physical spaces, and strategically manage/balance the allocation of financial and personnel resources.

• Lead in the successful development and execution of the College’s Strategic Plan together with faculty and staff – Augustana 2020 and in the 2015 Higher Learning Commission accreditation process.

• Fostered conversations with our faculty about innovating our core curriculum to make it distinct and build intentional connections among the vast array of courses that are offered under this umbrella.

• Worked with faculty to reimagine the liberal arts curriculum for the 21st century, abandoning the artificial and unproductive divide between professional and applied/pre-professional programs, and fostering intentional connections between traditional liberal arts disciplines and other programs.

• Work together with the President, the Vice-President of Advancement, faculty, and other partners to cultivate support for Augustana 2020 that is critical to our continued strength and success.

• Work together with the President and Advancement Office to build relationships with foundations, corporations and businesses, alumni, and friends of the college.

• Successfully worked together with admissions and student life to recruit and support a diverse student body, and a diverse faculty.

• Developed an innovative recruiting plan and scholarship fund targeted towards high achieving high school seniors- leading to a 0.5 increase in average ACT of incoming student body in 2014 and 2015.

• Continue to serve as an active leader and participant in building community and a cohesive sense of purpose and vision across the college and with the broader Quad Cities community as part of Augustana 2020. Augustana 2020 saw the broadest participation of the campus community in coming together to plan for the future.

• Continue to participate in national conversations on shared governance, developing faculty and academic leadership, building effective student support and persistence, building and supporting diversity initiatives, and the role of career development at a liberal arts college.

• Worked together with faculty and administrators to raise student rates of participation in study abroad, significant original research and internships to over 50%, 24%, and 60% respectively.

• Established the Upper Mississippi Center for Sustainable Communities in Winter 2013. The Center mobilizes Augustana’s resources to help communities solve sustainability challenges, and provides our faculty and students with learning opportunities to solve 21st-century sustainability challenges.

• Established CORE (Careers Opportunities Research Exploration) in Fall 2014 to ensure access to experiential learning opportunities, advising support, and professional development support and programming for all students starting with first-year summer registration and serving students after they graduate from Augustana.

• Established the Learning Commons in Spring 2015 to ensure holistic academic support services are available for all students. The Learning Commons includes tutoring services, Reading/Writing support, English Language Learner support, Academic and basic life skills support, research skills support, and academic accommodation.

Areas reporting to the Provost include Faculty, Curriculum, Assessment, Accreditation, Honors, Advising and Student Success, Registrar, Career Development and Vocational Exploration, Center for Faculty Enrichment, Student Research, Learning Commons, Field Stations, Institutional Research, Augustana Research Foundation, Art Museum, Fryxell Geology Museum, John Deere Planetarium, Library, Upper Mississippi Center for Sustainable Communities, Study Away, Swenson Center for Swedish Immigration, Symposium Days, Summer Programs and Summer Academy.