Since September 2002, Dr. Carolyn Hull Anderson has been the Executive Vice President of Cincinnati State Technical and Community College in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 2009, she was elected Chair of the Greater Cincinnati Consortium of Colleges and Universities, an alliance of 15 colleges and universities in the Greater Cincinnati area dedicated to inter-institutional cooperation. Dr. Anderson is also president-elect of the National Council on Black American Affairs, a council of the American Association of Community Colleges, the leading proponent and national voice for community colleges.
At Cincinnati State, Dr. Anderson serves as Internal President, responsible for the day-to-day administration of the institution. She directly oversees Human Resources, Enrollment Management and Student Development, Strategic Planning, Capital Planning, Information Technology Services, Facilities, Public Safety, and the Early Learning Center.
Before going to Cincinnati State, Dr. Anderson was the founding Dean of the Academic Services Division at Broome Community College in Binghamton, New York. At Broome, she was in charge of administration, planning, budget development, supervision, and evaluation of the Academic Services Division. She spearheaded the College's Conversation Series for communicating with students and served on the College's Guidance Team for Retention and Student Success.
She also served as Director of the Academic Development Program at Baltimore City Community College in Baltimore, Maryland, from 1995-99 and as that school's Chair of the Department of English, Speech, Foreign Languages, Art, and Music. Prior to this, she served in other administrative positions and for many years was an English faculty member. While serving as Director of Academic Development at Baltimore City, Dr. Anderson provided college-wide training for continuous quality improvement and led the efforts to promote collaborative relations between academic and administrative units at the college to advance student success.
Dr. Anderson completed a bachelor's degree in English, with honors, from Morgan State University; earned Master of Liberal Arts and Master of Science in Reading degrees from The Johns Hopkins University; and completed a Doctor of Education in Community College Leadership from North Carolina State University as a Kellogg Fellow.
Dr. Anderson's philosophy of life and education is that everyone deserves an opportunity to fulfill his or her life's purpose, and we, as a community, are responsible to do whatever we can to make that happen. Her fundamental interest is in promoting opportunities and building lives, especially for the youth - who are our future. As she sees it, her greatest asset is her family. She is the mother of two sons and daughters-in-law and the proud grandmother of three of our future leaders.
