As the University of Minnesota's chief public engagement officer, Vice Provost Van Egeren oversees the University's systemwide public engagement agenda. Her portfolio includes the management of the University's Office for Public Engagement, as well as oversight of its three reporting units: the Center for Community Engaged Learning, Center for Urban and Regional Affairs, and Robert J. Jones Urban Research and Outreach-Engagement Center. Prior to coming to the University in October of 2023, she served as the assistant provost for university-community partnerships and adjunct professor in Human Development and Family Studies at Michigan State University (MSU). Recognized as an experienced leader of public and community engagement in higher education and a scholar in the field of public engagement and evaluation methods for community-engaged research, Vice Provost Van Egeren is president of the internationally recognized Engagement Scholarship Consortium and serves on the leadership team of the National Science Foundation-funded Center for Advancing Research Impacts in Society. She holds a doctorate in developmental psychology and a master's degree in child/family clinical psychology from MSU.