Two Women Who Will Become University Provosts

Sarah Ewing was named provost and vice president for student experience at Gannon University in Erie, Pennsylvania, effective July 1. Since 2017, she has been serving as dean of the Morosky College of Health Professions and Sciences at the university. Dr. Ewing joined the faculty at Gannon University in 2009 as an assistant professor of biology and director of pre-health professional programs. She was named chair of the biology department in 2013.

Dr. Ewing is a graduate of Pennsylvania State University-Behrend. She earned a Ph.D. in biomedical sciences from North Carolina State University.

Adrea Lawrence was appointed interim provost at the University of Montana, effective May 15. She is the dean of the Phyllis J. Washington College of Education at the university. She is an education historian who has studied American Indian histories and their corresponding education histories. Dr. Lawrencwe is the author of Lessons from an Indian Day School:  Negotiating Colonization in Northern New Mexico, 1902-1907  (University Press of Kansas, 2011).

Dr. Lawrence holds a bachelor’s degree in American studies and a master’s degree in secondary social studies education from the University of Colorado Boulder. She earned a Ph.D. in educational leadership and policy studies from Indiana University.