Biography

Laurel Miller joined the faculty in the Fox School’s Management Information Systems (MIS) department as Assistant Professor of Practice in 2015. She has served as an adjunct faculty member since 2001.

Since 2006, she has served as Director of Temple University’s Institute for Business and Information Technology (IBIT). In this role, she manages external relations for IBIT and the MIS Department, including the Fox IT Symposium Series, the annual Fox School IT Awards, the IBIT membership program, and The IBIT Report, a whitepaper-style series of reports. She also co-manages the Fox IT Advisory board, which includes senior level executives from companies across the country.

Laurel co-created and co-raised $1.27 million in funding for the Digital Innovation Foundry who’s mission is to generate digital innovation by assessing, integrating, and prototyping digital technologies.

Additionally, Laurel coordinates faculty and student projects with corporate and community partners, an industry speaker series, and funding for student scholarships as well as MIS’ student professional organization. She also organizes the IT Career Fair, which is going into it’s eighth year, and was created specifically for business school students who are completing a major or minor in an IT related field. Laurel also co-organizes the Temple Analytics Challenge and the National AIS Analytics Challenge which is also going into it’s eighth year.

In 2017, Laurel won the Full time faculty teaching award which was announced at the 2017 Fox IT Awards. She also was co-recipient of the IMPACT award twice. Once for her work on the Analytics Challenge and once for her work on the Small Business and Non Profit Digital Transformation initiative.

She earned her Bachelor of Science in Early Childhood and Elementary Education and Master of Science in Education degrees from Temple University.