Biography

Dr. Laurie Lauzon Clabo serves as Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs at Wayne State University. As Chief Academic Officer, the university’s second-ranking executive officer, Provost Clabo oversees the academic mission of WSU, including the academic schools and colleges and all matters related to the instructional mission of the university, student performance and retention, and academic personnel policies and decisions.

Provost Clabo has a strong background in academic leadership, including more than 14 years of experience as a successful dean. She most recently served as dean of WSU’s College of Nursing and is a nationally recognized expert in nursing and interprofessional education.

Provost Clabo is an alumna of the Robert Wood Johnson Executive Nurse Fellows Program and the Wharton Executive Leadership Program and has served in a variety of leadership roles in professional organizations. She is a member of several editorial boards and a frequent national speaker on issues related to workforce development, interprofessional education, and competency-based education. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing.

Her leadership of two transformative national policy initiatives spearheaded a bold agenda for the national-level redesign of Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) education.

Her leadership of a working group of 26 national nursing organizations led to the establishment of the first national common competencies for APRNs, impacting the education and practice of the approximately 250,000 advanced practice nurses in the United States and the first common taxonomy for competency-based education accessible to nurses, interprofessional partners, regulators and the public.

During her time as dean, WSU’s College of Nursing grew in national prominence. Dr. Clabo’s accomplishments include significant growth in philanthropy, solid growth in research funding and graduate enrollment, and an extraordinary rise in national rankings that now place the college’s graduate programs among the top 50 in the country and the undergraduate program in the top 5% nationally. Dr. Clabo also led the opening of the new Campus Health Center, considered state-of-the-art in its field, and the Taylor Street Primary Care Clinic, a patient-centered, nurse-managed primary care practice serving the residents of Virginia Park.

Dr. Clabo previously served as interim provost, leading the university’s successful response to the COVID-19 pandemic. She also spearheaded the integration of student-facing health services on campus under a single umbrella, including the adoption of a single point of contact for mental health services, the expansion of clinical services provided by Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) — including 24/7 after hours services provided for all WSU students — and the establishment of the Office for Sexual Violence Prevention and Education (OSVPE).

Provost Clabo received her baccalaureate degree in nursing from the University of Windsor, her master’s in nursing administration from Dalhousie University in Halifax Nova Scotia and her Ph.D. in nursing from the University of Rhode Island.

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