»Collette Creppell - Vice President of Campus Planning and Design

Collette Creppell, AIA has served Chapman University since December 2019 as Vice President of Campus Planning and Design and as a member of the President’s senior staff. In this role Ms. Creppell guides the planning, development, and design of Chapman’s campuses and buildings. Ms. Creppell served previously for three years as university architect at Brown University in Providence, RI. Before Brown, Ms. Creppell devoted eight of her ten years as university architect and director of campus planning at Tulane University in New Orleans to post-Katrina campus rebuilding and renewal.

Ms. Creppell trained in the architecture firms of Rafael Moneo, Ben Thompson, and Moshe Safdie, respectively, in the U.S. and abroad. Having established a small design and planning firm in New Orleans, Collette later became a principal and director of urban strategies in the design firm Eskew Dumez Ripple. Ms. Creppell taught architectural design as a clinical assistant professor at Tulane School of Architecture.

A former city planner in New York City, Ms. Creppell later served as Executive Director of the New Orleans City Planning Commission.

Ms. Creppell currently serves on the board of directors of the national Association of University Architects, recently completed a six-year term on the Board of Directors of the Harvard Alumni Association, previously served for six years on the Alumni Council of Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, has chaired the national awards jury for the Society of College and University Planning, and has served on a number of non-profit arts, civic and educational boards.

Collette holds a Bachelor of Arts degree cum laude from Harvard College and a Master of Architecture degree with distinction from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. She is licensed as an architect in California, Louisiana, and New York.