Carol Gould

Consultant

Email: cgould@k-state.edu

Carol retired in December 2017 after a thirty-year career at Kansas State University and is now providing consulting services for the Institute for Academic Alliances at Kansas State University to assist universities in developing consortia for online education.

At the time of her retirement, Carol was the Executive Director of the Great Plains Interactive Distance Education Alliance, a nation-wide consortium of universities offering online master’s degrees and graduate certificates in the Human Sciences and Agriculture.

Carol holds degrees in microbiology from the University of Missouri and in political science from Kansas State University. She served as a Fellow in the W.K. Kellogg Foundation International Leadership Program. Her fellowship concentrated on leadership issues for rural women in Kansas and she developed a state-wide project designed to address their needs.

During her service as Director of the Kansas Center for Rural Initiatives and the Community Service Program at Kansas State University from 1987 to 2005, Carol directed projects funded by the Economic Development Administration of the U.S Dept. of Commerce, the Corporation for National Service, and the U.S. Department of Education. A member of the 2000 Class of Leadership Kansas and past Board member for the Heartland Center for Leadership Development, Carol has participated in the Leadership Development Program and LeaderLab through the Center for Creative Leadership.

Carol is a fifth generation Kansan and has resided in Manhattan since 1971. She has been an active member of many community organizations, serving two terms on the Manhattan Urban Area Planning Board and as City Commissioner from 1999 – 2001. She is the mother of four grown sons and enjoys five grandchildren. Carol completed Master Gardener training and is happily spending her retirement gardening, traveling, and working with her husband, Alan, on entrepreneurial agriculture projects.