Carolyn Gentle-Genitty
Dr. Carolyn Gentle-Genitty, Dean of Founder’s College at Butler University, is a highly accomplished executive and international research scholar, spanning 25 years in higher education, social work, academic affairs, and leadership roles. She has been involved in constructing policy action statements, optimizing standard operating procedures, cultivating visions for long-term institutional change, emphasizing shared ownership of change, embedding performance evaluations around expected change, and creating articulated policy practices.
Gentle-Genitty earned an undergraduate and master’s degree in Social Work from Spalding University in Louisville, Kentucky. After earning her doctoral degree in Social Work from Indiana University (IU), she went on to lead the University’s Bachelor of Social Work program on the Indianapolis campus before moving into system-wide leadership roles.