Jill Carr was recently rewarded for her hard work and dedication to the University with a promotion from Associate Dean of Students to Dean of Students.
The Dean of Students is responsible for supervising many of the University’s programs.
Some of these programs include orientation and first year programs, student discipline programs, student organizations, leadership organizations, spirit programs and crisis and emergency programs.
“My biggest responsibility is to be an advocate for students,” Carr said. “To be out there and promoting what I know compliments the academic experience that a student gets here.”
Carr’s motivation has always been to act in the best interest of the students and her ability to develop relationships and report with people has given her the opportunity to serve that interest.
Through working as an RA during her junior year of college, Carr discovered that she had a passion for working with college students.
This took her far off the path that she envisioned. She originally sought to be a French teacher.
“The hall director I worked for was a graduate of the Bowling Green college student personnel program,” Carr said. “I learned that there was a profession that went around working with college students, and got completely turned on by that. I then made the decision that I was going to go to graduate school.”
She knew immediately that BGSU was the place where she wanted to go for graduate school.
After earning her masters, Carr was offered a position as a hall director here at the University.
“So I made the decision to take the hall director job. I did that for four years, and then was given the opportunity to advance up to the central office in Residence Life and continue to add responsibility and challenge with different titles,” Carr said.
While working in Residence Life, Carr and her husband started their family. All three of her children were born during her time working in Residence Life.
Carr got her first big promotion when Edward Whipple came to the University in 1994 as Vice President of Student Affairs.
“One of his first tasks was to create an Office of Student Life because we didn’t have one. He asked me if I would move from Residence Life to Student Life, and create a new student discipline system,” Carr said.
