Susan Awbrey - Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost

Susan Awbrey
Interim Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost
awbrey@oakland.edu
248-370-2193

Interim Provost Susan M. Awbrey has been a faculty member and administrator in higher education for 28 years. She joined Oakland University in 1991 and has been an integral member of the OU community, serving as a faculty member, department chair, vice provost, and senior associate provost prior to her assuming her role as provost. Dr. Awbrey’s Ph.D. combined the study of education, psychology, neuroscience, and mathematics to explore ways of unlocking human creativity.

As a professor of education, her research focuses on effective organizational design, development, and change in higher education institutions. She has authored and co-authored numerous publications and conference papers including the recent edited book, Integrative Learning and Action; a series of essays by prominent philosophers, educators, scientists, organizational theorists, and poets that speak to a desire to find ways of learning , knowing and leading that draw on the full spectrum of our intelligences to create a wiser, more collaborative global society. Prior to joining Oakland University, Dr. Awbrey was an administrator and faculty member at University of Illinois, Michigan State University, and the University of Texas Medical Branch.