Carol Wittmeyer, Ed.D.
Carol is passionate about helping students and faculty reach their goals. She has dedicated her career and voluntary activities to philanthropy and teaching to realize her passion.
She has been active in philanthropy for decades. Most recently Carol served as Interim Vice President and Executive Director of Campaigns for Newman University in Wichita, Kansas. She served as Associate Vice President for University Relations at Alfred University where she managed the New Millennium Campaign which raised $82 million, $7 million over goal. She served as Vice President for College Relations at Medaille College.
For two years she served as President of the Raymond Family Business Institute, a foundation dedicated to promoting and serving family business owners. Along with colleagues from the Kauffman Foundation, London Business School, Babson College, and Kennesaw University, she coauthored international and national research projects including the family business research in the 2003 Global Entrepreneur Monitor and the 2002 American Family Business Survey, the most widely cited research on family business. This research includes the impact of family businesses on philanthropy.
As acting dean for the school of education at St. Bonaventure she was responsible for all external relations for the school. As a board member of the Olean General Hospital, Montessori Children’s House, Olean YMCA and the Warner School of Education at the University of Rochester, Carol has been active in her community as a volunteer and donor. She was awarded the 40 Under 40 Business Leader Award from Buffalo Business First in 2001.
Carol earned her doctorate in education from the University of Rochester where she has endowed a scholarship in honor of a deceased classmate. Her dissertation research based on case studies is entitled: Decision-Making Processes of Private College Trustees. She was a visiting fellow at Babson College and the University of Rochester where she also taught.
She earned her MBA specializing in Accounting and her BBA in Accounting from St. Bonaventure University. She earned her AAS in finance from Alfred State College.
She is a visiting professor of management sciences at St. Bonaventure University.
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