Lorin Basden Arnold, Ph.D.

Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs

Kutztown University

Lorin Basden Arnold is Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Kutztown University. She was previously the Provost at SUNY New Paltz and held the position of Dean of the College of Communication and Creative Arts at Rowan University. A graduate of Purdue University, her bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral education had a split focus in organizational and interpersonal communication. She has taught across the communication studies curriculum, with primary attention to interpersonal, family, and organizational communication, as well as qualitative methodology. Arnold’s research has primarily addressed issues related to family, often with embedded critical and/or feminist analytic frames. Her most recent work has been devoted to mothering and how cultural expectations of motherhood frame and restrict the experiences of mothers.