Carolyn serves as the Assistant Campus Dean for Administrative Services at UW-Baraboo/Sauk County. In that capacity she is responsible for the business operations, facilities and auxiliary services of the campus. UW-Baraboo/Sauk Co. is one of 13 freshman/sophomore liberal arts campuses within the UW System. It serves more than 460 full-time students and over 2,000 continuing education students in a multi-county area.

Carolyn attended the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia where she received a BA (Psychology) and Master in Business Administration. She worked for Champion International Corporation, a Fortune 500 forest products company, in a variety of management positions including financial planning, corporate services and facilities administration. After twenty years of a successful career she decided to transition her business skills to higher education, which brought her to the University of Wisconsin Colleges.

Carolyn has been living in Baraboo for nearly six years and been an active member of the community through her involvement in Kiwanis and on the Boards of the Boys and Girls Club and St. Clare Health Care Foundation. She has completed the Sauk County Institute of Leadership Program and the Wisconsin Rural Leadership Program.