Donna Heiland Appointed Provost at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York

Donna Heiland will be the next provost at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. She will take office on July 1.

“I am thrilled and honored to serve as Pratt’s next provost, and eager to work with President Bronet and the entire Pratt community to advance the work of the Institute,” Dr. Heiland said. “Pratt faculty, staff, and students are quite literally shaping the world we all want to live in, working on leading edges of their disciplines and finding interdisciplinary strategies for engaging the most interesting and pressing challenges of our time. I am energized by the prospect of what we can do together.”

Dr. Heiland joined Pratt as associate provost for academic affairs in 2016, and became vice provost just over a year later. Prior to arriving at Pratt, Dr. Heiland was vice president and special assistant to the president at Emerson College in Boston, where her work focused particularly on the college’s strategic priorities. For nearly a dozen years, she was a faculty member at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, earning tenure in the English department. Dr. Heiland is the author of Gothic and Gender: An Introduction (Wiley-Blackwell, 2004).

Dr. Heiland is a graduate of Western University in Ontario. She holds a Ph.D. in English from Yale University.