Carolyn H. Livingston serves as vice president for student life and dean of students at Carleton College, a small, highly selective residential liberal arts college in Northfield, Minnesota. Livingston also serves as the Institutional Liaison for the Posse Foundation and has more than twenty five years of experience in higher education, having worked first at the University of
Virginia and, prior to Carleton, Emory University as senior associate vice president for campus life and Title IX coordinator for students.

As a 2022 Pillar of the Profession, Livingston has served as a faculty member for the NASPA Region III/SACSA New Professional Institute, the co-chair of the NASPA M. Ben Hogan Small Colleges and Universities Institute, and chair of NASPA’s Small College and University Division
Advisory Board. Her research interests, publications, and teaching have addressed assessment and evaluation, first-generation and low-income students, staffing practices in higher education, accreditation, and strategic planning. Her most recent publication, Small and Mighty: Student Affairs at Small Colleges and Universities explores critical opportunities and challenges at higher education institutions with fewer than 5,000 students.

Livingston completed her BS in applied mathematics from North Carolina State University and both an MA in counselor education and a PhD in higher education administration from the University of Virginia.