Thomas Evans President of Carroll College
MA Asian Studies, ’95
PhD Educational Administration, ’04

On November 5, 2012, College of Education alumnus Dr. Thomas M. Evans was inaugurated as the 16^th president of Carroll College, a four-year Catholic diocesan college in Helena, Montana. Attending the ceremony were dignitaries from colleges throughout the nation and elected officials, including Montana’s long-serving U.S. Senator Max Baucus, plus past Carroll presidents, bishops and many others. Founded in 1909, Carroll College has a student body of 1,500 and is ranked number one in its class by U.S. News & World Report; in Forbes magazine’s America’s 650 Top Colleges, Carroll is #152—far and away the highest ranked in Montana and one of the region’s leading private colleges and universities of any size.

Evans was selected through a national search as Carroll College’s new president, with his term at Carroll beginning June 2012. At the time of his presidential selection, Evans was serving as associate vice president for professional education and global initiatives at St. Edward’s University in Austin, Texas, a leading Catholic institution with over 5,400 undergraduate and graduate students. In the associate vice presidential role he had held since 2008 at St. Edward’s, Evans was a leader in expanding global education, including study abroad and exchange programs, while enhancing professional education programming. During his 15-year career at St. Edwards, Evans became thoroughly knowledgeable about all aspects of higher education through work in myriad departments, including service as director of graduate admission, director for the Center for Academic Progress, and dean of Graduate and Adult Services and through teaching Japanese culture and master’s thesis courses.

Evans holds a bachelor of science with a major in Japanese and a minor in theology from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. He went on to receive a master of arts in Asian studies and a Ph.D. in educational administration from The University of Texas at Austin.