Northfield, Minn.––Dr. Carolyn H. Livingston, currently senior associate vice president for campus life and Title IX coordinator for students at Emory University (Ga.), has been named Carleton College’s new vice president for student life and dean of students.
Livingston replaces Hudlin Wagner, who announced her retirement in September, effective at the end of the current academic year. Livingston will assume her new post June 22, 2015.
“I couldn't be more thrilled that Carolyn has accepted our offer to lead our student life division,” Carleton President Steven Poskanzer said. “In Carolyn, I'm confident Carleton has found a wise, warm and gifted leader who cares passionately about students and their success. She is someone who relishes the opportunity to be part of - and enhance - this community, and her leadership, vision and strong management skills will help the division of student life and the College move forward in the best way.”
“The search committee was strongly enthusiastic about Carolyn at every step of the process; she has an impressive curriculum vitae, but is even more impressive in person,” said associate dean of the college and associate professor of English George Shuffelton, who chaired the search committee. “She brings a great range of experience, and she's worked successfully with people from all across the board at Emory. She's a seasoned administrator, but also a sincere, engaging person who makes a point of making people feel connected.”
Livingston has worked at Emory since 2006, serving as special assistant to the senior vice president and dean of campus life from July 2006 – April 2013, when she moved into her current role as senior associate vice president and Title IX coordinator. Her primary responsibilities at Emory include supervising the Student Intervention Services Team and the Student Ombudsperson, leading the division’s strategic planning process, and centralizing the university’s sexual misconduct adjudication process. Carolyn has been a leader in Emory’s assessment planning, and she created the 1915 Scholars Program, a retention initiative specifically targeting first generation low-income students. She also serves as deputy to the senior vice president.
A graduate of North Carolina State University with a B.S. in applied mathematics, Livingston earned both her M.Ed. in counselor education and Ph.D. in higher education administration from the University of Virginia. She worked as an admissions officer at Virginia for nearly five years and served as a doctoral intern in the president’s office for two years prior to her move to Emory.
“I feel privileged to join the Carleton family,” Livingston said. “Carleton’s strong commitment to student life and academic excellence presents a tremendous opportunity for me to help students grow and develop as future leaders and change agents who positively transform the local community and beyond. From the first moment I met students and colleagues at Carleton, I knew I was among the very best and brightest in the world. I look forward to this exciting opportunity.”
