Carolyn Noll Sorg has been named the twenty-seventh president of John Carroll University in Ohio. Upon assuming her presidency on June 1, 2026, she is slated to become the university’s first woman president in its 139-year history.
Located just outside of Cleveland, John Carroll University enrolls nearly 2,300 undergraduates and 500 graduate students, according to the most recent data from the U.S. Department of Education. Women represent 46 percent of the undergraduate population.
Noll Sorg joined the John Carroll administration in 2023 as vice president for enrollment management and was promoted the following year to vice president for enrollment and marketing. Under her leadership, the university experienced significant increases in applications and enrollment, established new partnerships with high schools in Ohio and beyond, ran a successful fundraising campaign, and modernized its marketing and communications.
Before coming to John Carroll, Noll Sorg led the College Board’s BigFuture division. She previously served as chief admissions officer at Ursuline College and held student-facing positions at the University of Akron, Baldwin Wallace University in Berea, Ohio, and Barnard College in New York City.
An Ohio native, Noll Sorg is a summa cum laude graduate of Baldwin Wallace University, where she majored in English. She holds a master’s degree in higher education from Columbia University in New York City and a master of fine arts degree in experience design from Miami University in Ohio.