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Professor Emeritus of History Roy Carroll (December 8, 1929-), college professor and administrator, interim chancellor, and university system vice president, was born in England, Arkansas. He married (1953) Eleanor Kate Moorefield, and the couple has two daughters, Jane and Linda, who are both married. Carroll earned his B.A. degree (1951), cum laude, from Quachita Baptist University, Arkadelphia, Arkansas, where he majored in history and minored in French. While there, he was chosen as "Distinguished Military Student," and "Distinguished Military Graduate," and was selected for Who's Who in American Colleges and Universities. He earned his M.A. (1959) and Ph.D. (1964) degrees from Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, where he majored in history and minored in political science. While at Vanderbilt, he received a university scholarship in 1955-56 and a university teaching fellowship in 1956-58. Dr. Carroll did additional study at Southwestern Theological Seminary, Fort Worth, Texas, where he studied theology, philosophy, and ethics from 1953 to 1955; served as a Fulbright scholar at the University of Leeds, England, United Kingdom, from 1953 to 1955; was a fellow of the Southern Fellowship Fund at the Folger Shakespeare Library and Library of Congress, summer, 1960; received a Mercer University summer research grant to study at the Folger Shakespeare Library and the Library of Congress, 1962; and attended the Institute for Educational Management, Harvard University, 1987. Dr. Carroll served as a United States Army infantry officer (captain) in Japan and Korea in 1951-53, and in the United States Army Reserve from 1953 to 1965. Dr. Carroll's first academic appointment was as a mathematics teacher at Baker High School, Columbus, Georgia, from January to June 1955. His next post was an assistant professor at Mercer University, Macon, Georgia, during 1959-65. From 1965 to 1969, Carroll served as professor of history and chair of the Department of History and Political Science at Armstrong State College. Savannah, Georgia. His next appointment was at Appalachian State University as professor of history and chair of the Department of History and Political Science, 1969-79. While at Appalachian, Dr. Carroll became the first recipient of the I.G. Greer Distinguished Professorship. This endowed chair was the first in Appalachian's College of Arts and Sciences and was awarded on the basis of outstanding teaching, research, and service. Upon leaving Appalachian in 1979, Dr. Carroll became vice president for planning of the University of North Carolina System's General Administration in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and served from 1979 to 1990 and from 1991 to 1996. As vice president, Dr. Carroll was in charge of planning for the sixteen-campus university system. Dr. Carroll also served as the interim chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Asheville from July 1990 to July 1991. From 1996 until his retirement in December 1999, Dr. Carroll served as the senior vice president and vice president for academic affairs for the General Administration of the University of North Carolina System. As senior vice president, Carroll served, in effect, as executive vice president for the sixteen campuses of the university. He had oversight and coordinating responsibilities for divisions of academic affairs, finance, planning, program assessment and public service, public affairs, research, and student services. He also served as staff liaison to the Board of Governors' committee on personnel and tenure and as a principal spokesman for the university before legislative committees. Dr. Carroll also had numerous professional, non-teaching responsibilities at the national/regional, state, and institutional levels. Carroll's responsibilities at the state level included: • Governor's Advisory Council on Literacy 1988-92. • Board of Directors, North Carolina Museum of History Associates, 1975-79. • Secretary (1976-77) and chair (1977-79) of the Faculty Assembly of the University of North Carolina-from 1979-99, presidential representation and staff liaison to the Assembly. • The Joint Advisory Committee of the University of North Carolina and the Community College System-from 1977-90. • North Carolina Criminal Justice Education and Training Standards Commission, 1979-90. • Advisory Board Institute of Transportation Research and Education, Research Triangle Park, 1980-99. • Board of Directors of the Foundation for the UNC Center for Public Television 1996-99. • Board of Directors, Research Triangle Institute, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 1996-99. Dr. Carroll has been a prolific writer and an outstanding scholar. Some of his publications are listed below: • "The By-Election at Aldborough, 1673," Huntington Library Quarterly, XXVII (1965), 157-78. • "Yorkshire Parliamentary Boroughs in the Seventeenth Century," Northern History, III (October 1968), 70-104. This quarterly is published by the University of Leeds, England, United Kingdom. • "What the Student Doesn't Know." The Georgia Reporter: Bulletin of the Georgia Council for Social Sciences, II (Fall 1969), 37-46. • "What About the Compasses?" The High School Journal, (University of North Carolina Press), LIX (December 1975), 137-43. • Co-author with Raymond H. Pulley, Historic Structures Report, Little Cataloochee, North Carolina (Great Smoky Mountains National Park, 1976), 146 pp. • "Shifting Strategies: Rural Culture to Urban Influence," in God-Called Ministry: Essays in the Christian Ministry, ed. Morris Ashcraft (North Carolina Baptist State Convention, 1983). • Biennial Long-Range Planning, 1980-99, the University of North Carolina Board of Governors. Dr. Carroll has received the following honors: inclusion in Who's Who in America, Who's Who in American Education, Who's Who in the South and Southwest, and in the Directory of American Scholars, honorary doctorates from Appalachian State University and University of North Carolina-Asheville. The Roy Carroll Distinguished Professorship in British Studies will be established with a $1,000,000 endowment in 2008 at ASU. Carroll is now retired and lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, with his wife. The sixth edition (2004) of The Appalachian Faculty Emeriti was dedicated to Dr. Carroll. Sources: Personal correspondence with Dr. Roy Carroll and long association. -Dr. Richard D. Howe
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