{"id":37971,"date":"2019-07-18T13:16:18","date_gmt":"2019-07-18T17:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/provost\/?page_id=37971"},"modified":"2025-11-05T10:37:45","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T15:37:45","slug":"laura-johnson","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/provost\/students\/undergraduate\/meet-the-team\/laura-johnson\/","title":{"rendered":"Laura Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/provost\/files\/2019\/07\/Laura-Johnson-e1563470099454.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-37973\" width=\"193\" height=\"262\" \/>Senior Assistant Provost for Undergraduate Affairs<\/h2>\n<p>Laura Johnson works with university stakeholders to develop academic policy, to support undergraduate curricular review, and to expand educational opportunities for undergraduate students. Laura also collaborates with the associate provost for undergraduate affairs on launching new initiatives for undergraduates. In addition, she oversees efforts in student success, including first-year and transfer student success, the pathways programs, national and international fellowships, and the Educational Resource Center. Laura serves as the BU Posse Liaison.<\/p>\n<p>Before moving into the Provost\u2019s Office, Laura served as associate dean for student affairs in BU Wheelock College of Education &amp; Human Development. Prior to her time at BU, Laura was at Harvard University, where she served on the faculty in History &amp; Literature and in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and held a variety of positions in academic affairs and student affairs.<\/p>\n<p>Laura holds a doctorate in American Studies from Boston University. She also holds a master\u2019s degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where she focused her studies on student development, and a bachelor\u2019s degree from Brown University, where she studied American Civilization and French Literature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senior Assistant Provost for Undergraduate Affairs Laura Johnson works with university stakeholders to develop academic policy, to support undergraduate curricular review, and to expand educational opportunities for undergraduate students. Laura also collaborates with the associate provost for undergraduate affairs on launching new initiatives for undergraduates. In addition, she oversees efforts in student success, including first-year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5321,"featured_media":0,"parent":37661,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/provost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37971"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/provost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/provost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/provost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5321"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/provost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37971"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/provost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65265,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/provost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37971\/revisions\/65265"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/provost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/provost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}