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Nashville, TN-based Barbara Carroll as Chief Human Resources Officer
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Vanderbilt University, located in Nashville, Tennessee, is a private research university and medical center offering a full-range of undergraduate, graduate and professional degrees. Today Vanderbilt enrolls approximately 12,000 students from all 50 U.S. states and over 90 foreign countries in four undergraduate and six graduate and professional schools.The university comprises 10 schools, a distinguished medical center, a public policy center and The Freedom Forum First Amendment Center. Vanderbilt offers undergraduate programs in the liberal arts and sciences, engineering, music, education and human development as well as a full range of graduate and professional degrees. The university is consistently ranked as one of the nation`s top 20 universities by publications such as U.S.
About the Person
Barbara L. Carroll, a nationally recognized leader in higher education human resources, is the Associate Vice Chancellor and Chief Human Resources Officer at Vanderbilt University, effective Jan. 5, 2016. Carroll, who has held the same title at North Carolina State University for the past 11 years, is also the current chair of the board of the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources, the national association for higher ed HR. An alumna of Vanderbilt`s Peabody College and the Owen Graduate School of Management, she spent her early career at Vanderbilt. Carroll will work with the university`s senior leadership team in designing and implementing human resource services for the university. Carroll has long been active in CUPA-HR. As chair of its public policy committee, she has spoken before Congress and has been involved in developing and representing federal legislative and regulatory positions on a wide range of issues that have an impact on higher education and the workforce. In July 2015, she became chair of the national board. Carroll has held her current position at N.C. State since 2004. Before that, she was assistant vice president for human resources at Georgia State University and directed human resource services at Swarthmore College and the University of Missouri–St. Louis. Her first position in human resources was at Vanderbilt University and Medical Center, where she managed employee and labor relations until 1993. She began her higher education career in the graduate psychology and human development program at Peabody College before being recruited into Vanderbilt`s HR office. She did her undergraduate work in Vanderbilt`s College of Arts and Science and Peabody College and holds an executive MBA from the Owen Graduate School of Management.
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