Carolyn Carr, PhD, is a professor of educational leadership and policy in the Graduate School of Education. She serves as the coordinator of the Executive Leadership Licensure program, which prepares educators for service in Oregon schools. She graduated from The University of Texas at Austin with degrees in English, school counseling and educational administration. Her scholarship and areas of interest are educational leadership, diversity, and the policy and politics of education. She was the founding president of the Oregon Professors of Educational Administration and guided its affiliation as a charter member of the National Council of Professors of Educational Administration (NCPEA). She is the director of research for ORPEA. She has served as a member of the executive board of the National Council of Professors of Educational Administration and is currently the PSU plenum representative to the University Council of Educational Administration. She serves on the steering committee for the Oregon Leadership Network of the Oregon Department of Education, and on the Confederation of Oregon School Administrators (COSA) licensure committee.

The Oregon Department of Education awarded Cr. Carr its Distinguished Service Award for her leadership in the State Action for Educational Leadership Project. NCPEA recognized her service on its executive board and her contributions to the preparation and renewal of educational leaders. She coauthored a book entitled Winning Women: Women Leaders in Education, and served as editor of the National Council of Professors of Educational Administration 2004 Yearbook: Educational leadership: Knowing the way, showing the way, going the way. She is the editor of a special February 2008 edition of the Educational Leadership Review that focuses on the unique Oregon story of administrative licensure standards change with its focus on diversity, cultural competence, and teaching and learning.