Montserrat Fuentes, the first Hispanic and second woman president of St. Edward’s University in Austin, Texas, has announced she will step down from her role on July 1.
Prior to assuming her presidency on July 1, 2021, Dr. Fuentes was a professor of statistics and executive vice president and provost at the University of Iowa for two years. Before joining the Iowa administration, she was a professor of statistics and dean of the College of Humanities and Sciences at Virginia Commonwealth University. Earlier, she spent 18 years on the faculty at North Carolina State University, ultimately serving as head of the department of statistics and the James M. Goodnight Distinguished Professor of Statistics.
Dr. Fuentes is a graduate of the University of Valladolid in Spain where she earned dual bachelor’s degrees in mathematics and statistics and in music and piano. She holds a Ph.D. in statistics from the University of Chicago.