Carolyn is a Visiting Lecturer in Accounting at the Judd Leighton School of Business and Economics. Carolyn is a licensed CPA and holds an MBA and PhD in Advanced Accounting. Her work has included accounting program director, associate professor, and instructor in higher education at the undergraduate and graduate (MBA) level. She has taught Principles of Accounting I & II, Financial Analysis, Accounting Theory, Accounting and Tax Research, Advanced Managerial Accounting, Managerial Finance, Advanced Income Tax, and Accounting Final Project. Additionally, she has taught management courses, Organizations and Organizational Change, Negotiations, and Venture Growth Management. She is skilled in teaching business students to use critical thinking and writing skills.

Carolyn’s professional career started in an Elkhart CPA firm as a junior accountant. From there, she was enticed to join a neighboring commercial bank as the first woman business lender in the region. Carolyn started the first Small Business Development Center in the State of Indiana.  Carolyn’s Small Business Development Center encouraged entrepreneurial behavior and became the model for other Small Business Developments Centers. Fifteen years later, when she had led many in entrepreneurial thinking, Carolyn went back to school and got an MBA.

Carolyn became a Small Business Administration lender for Bank of America, focusing on a wide range of businesses which did not have access to the established banking industry.  She worked there until 2010 until she started an MBA in Accounting degree at Friends University in Wichita, Kansas.

Carolyn obtained her PhD in Accounting at Northcentral University and returned to South Bend and began teaching part-time at IUSB until becoming a full time Visiting Lecturer in Accounting teaching Accounting and Management classes. Her dissertation was entitled “Stakeholder Perception of Value Creation and Risk in Public Universities”.

She encourages students to sit for the CPA exam, as having that certificate can open so many doors in this field of work.

Her teaching interests include:

• Entrepreneurship
• Organizational Change

Courses taught at IU South Bend

• BUS-A 312
• BUS-A 337
• BUS-B 399
• BUS-W 430
• BUS-X 220