Trustee Emerita S. Caroline Kerr ’05, an training chief and strategist with a background in constructing and advising startups and nonprofits, has been named particular advisor to the president for strategic and new initiatives, President Sian Leah Beilock introduced at this time.
The part-time place, which features a group relations element, started Sept. 1.
“Caroline is a bridge-builder with a dedication to Dartmouth who is aware of the way to convey folks collectively to enhance their organizations,” President Beilock says. “Her potential to domesticate robust relationships throughout the establishment will assist push Dartmouth to new heights.”
“I’m excited to be becoming a member of President Beilock’s group and energized by her rising imaginative and prescient for Dartmouth,” says Kerr, who accomplished her time period as trustee in June. “This is a chance to leverage my deep expertise with Dartmouth and my skilled expertise strengthening nice, mission-driven organizations.”
As particular advisor, Kerr will work carefully with the president, senior leaders, and groups throughout campus to develop and implement “particular initiatives which might be core to Dartmouth’s success, together with engagement with our area people, supporting college students as they design their Dartmouth {and professional} careers, and fueling innovation throughout the establishment,” she says.
Key companions on this work will embrace the Workplace of Authorities and Group Relations, the Transformation Workplace, the Dean of the Faculty and Division of Pupil Affairs, Campus Providers, and others.
Kerr was beforehand CEO of the Joyce Ivy Basis, a nonprofit that helps elevate the aspirations of proficient younger girls and put together them for faculty and management, and presently serves on a number of nonprofit boards, together with the Youngsters’s Literacy Basis.
As a Dartmouth undergraduate, Kerr majored in sociology modified with girls’s and gender research and minored in training and human improvement, and went on to earn a grasp’s in larger training from the Harvard Graduate College of Schooling. Whereas at Harvard, she labored with the Consortium on Financing Greater Schooling, a corporation of extremely selective liberal arts schools and universities dedicated to monetary support insurance policies that meet college students’ full demonstrated want, and acquired Harvard’s Mental Contribution/School Tribute Award.
A recipient of the Younger Alumni Distinguished Service Award and two-time winner of the Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs 1852 Group Chief of the Yr Award, Kerr has been actively engaged with Dartmouth all through her profession. She served two phrases as president of DGALA, Dartmouth’s LGBTQIA+ alumni affiliation, and was a member of the Alumni Council, Communities Govt Council, Membership And Group Officers’ Govt Committee, Class of 2005 Govt Committee, and the Ladies of Dartmouth launch group.
Elected to the Board of Trustees in 2015, Kerr—one of many youngest trustees in Dartmouth’s historical past—served as vice chair of the board, chair of the Committee on Pupil Expertise, and trustee liaison to the advisory boards of the Dartmouth Heart for Social Impression, the William Jewett Tucker Heart for Non secular and Moral Life, and the Nelson A. Rockefeller Heart for Public Coverage and Social Sciences.
Kerr lives in Hanover along with her spouse, Darcy Kerr, Geisel ’10, an affiliate professor of pathology and laboratory drugs on the Geisel College of Drugs, and their three kids. The couple is energetic within the Higher Valley group through Ford Sayre and Hanover Parks and Recreation youth teaching, the Lake Morey Protecting Affiliation, Montshire Museum of Science, Vermont Institute of Pure Science, CHaD HERO, and the Prouty.
Kerr serves on the Bernice A. Ray College PTO Grant Committee and beforehand served on the boards of StoneLedge Stables and Hampshire Cooperative Nursery College, in addition to a number of working teams on housing, youngster care, and early childhood training.
