Carolyn Boulger Karlson

Dr. Karlson is Associate Vice President for Graduate, Weekend, and Accelerated programs at College of Notre Dame of Maryland. From 1996 through 2005, she taught management communication and entrepreneurship courses in the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame. Dr. Karlson serves as an advisor to the Gigot Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, where she mentors finalist teams of undergraduates, graduate students, and Notre Dame alumni in annual business plan competition...See more

Dr. Karlson is Associate Vice President for Graduate, Weekend, and Accelerated programs at College of Notre Dame of Maryland. From 1996 through 2005, she taught management communication and entrepreneurship courses in the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame. Dr. Karlson serves as an advisor to the Gigot Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, where she mentors finalist teams of undergraduates, graduate students, and Notre Dame alumni in annual business plan competition events. She has worked as a business reporter and editor for regional and national publications, and in public relations and university development as an editor and grant writer. She is the author of e-technology and the Fourth Economy (SouthWestern College Publishing, 2003), and is the author of the first edition of "Writing and Presenting a Business Plan." She holds a Mass Media Ph.D. from Michigan State University, a Master of Science in Journalism from Columbia University, and a Bachelor of Arts from Simmons College in Boston. See less