Carol Anderson
Carol Anderson is a second generation Montanan with 100% Croatian roots; she is also a Carroll College Alumna. After coming to Helena to attend Carroll from Eastern Montana, she never left the Queen City and enjoys hiking on Mount Helena with her dog, volunteering around the community, and watching Carroll College soccer. Carol and her husband, Jay, started the Host Family Soccer Program for the Lady Saints seven years ago. She has four children divided evenly between Western Washington Vikings and Montana State Bobcats! Carol is honored to work with Carroll students and to give back to the Carroll community.
Erin Dininny Harris
This interesting Scorpio is the Wellness Center's Office Manager in the mornings. She is currently a Classical Studies student at Carroll College. She enjoys running the trails of Mount Helena, being chauffeur for her daughters, and hanging out at the library. To survive college Erin suggests that students "Get lots of sleep and start homework early - don't procrastinate!"
K. Mike Franklin, EdD, LCPC
Director of Counseling Services
and Gracie... "Carroll's K-9 Comforter No. 1"
Mike is in his seventh year at Carroll and loves it more each year. After working with young adults for his entire career, he finds his current interactions with Carroll College student to be his favorite. He enjoys helping them transition from adolescents to young adults, from living at home to living independently, from an initial idea of who and what they want to be to a more focused grounded knowledge of themselves.
Mike's educational background includes an Engineering Degree from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, a Master of Divinity Degree from Duke University, a Master of Sacred Theology from Yale University, and a Doctorate in Counseling Psychology from Argosy University in Sarasota. He is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor.
Prior to coming to Carroll, Mike served as a United Methodist Pastor and a Navy Chaplain for 18 years. Though Mike hails from southern Montana (small geographic area known as South Carolina), he has lived in eleven different States and in the Republic of Panama. Mike served two years in Her Majesty's Royal Navy in England as an exchange officer with Great Britain. He taught at the undergraduate level prior to coming to Carroll and currently teaches an Alpha Seminar class in the fall and a psychology class, Emotional Intelligence, in the spring.
Mike enjoys hiking, cross-country skiing, snowshoeing, kayaking, and hanging out with friends. Along with his memberships in the Bankrupt Brain Trust and the Hauser Boulevard Literary Society.
Kathleen Joyce-Trudnowski, RN
Director of Health and Wellness
Kathleen Joyce-Trudnowski is privileged to assist students in caring for their health, supporting their "wellness" and educating them on health care issues or concerns. She started her Nursing career at Carroll College in a Diploma Program and obtained her B.S. in Nursing from Marillac College in St. Louis, Missouri.
Kathleen has worked full-time in a variety of positions before coming to Carroll. She has been in the Nursing field for 33 years. She has worked in hospitals, nursing homes, home health, summer camps and a variety of other positions; including nine years as a traveling nurse.
Kathleen and her husband, Jim, live on Canyon Ferry Lake. Outside of their time at Carroll, attending functions, they enjoy their time together- fishing, boating, gardening, or just having some quiet time to spend out in God's nature, hiking and traveling.
Kelly Parsley, MA
Kelly has a Master's Degree from the Pennsylvania State University and has been instructing college students and adults since 1988. She teaches various writing course at Carroll as well as Alpha Seminar and Community Health classes. From 1996 to 2006 she served as the Education Coordinator for Helena's Friendship Center, a domestic violence/rape crisis program.
She worked as the Sexual Assault Prevention Services Coordinator for the Montana Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence and served on their Board of Directors for four years. She served two years on the Montana Crime Victim's Services Committee, and for the past three years she has been appointed to the Governor's AIDS Advisory Council as well as the Lewis and Clark County DUI Taskforce. In 2006-2007 she served as the Executive Director of Helena's Youth Connections, an organization committed to prevention of teen use of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs.
In the fall of 2000, Kelly Parsley was appointed to the Advisory Council of the National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC). She was elected Vice Chair of that organization in 2001 and was elected President in 2002-2005. In 2006 she wrote the field guide that Montana law enforcement officers use to respond to sexual assault crimes.
She also created and coordinated Carroll College's victim advocacy program in 1996 and continues that work today. She advocates for students in sexual assault crises and assists the college in creating healthy dating and violence prevention workshops as well as policies and procedures to support victims of crime.
Megan Patrick-Thompson, MA
Associate Director of Counseling
Carroll College welcomes back 2004 alumna Megan Patrick-Thompson! After completing her Bachelors in Psychology at Carroll, Megan moved to California to pursue her Masters in Clinical Psychology. She is currently working on her Ph.D and all she has left is the dreaded doctoral dissertation.
Of Megan's various counseling experiences, her favorite was working with College Students in San Diego, CA. So, she is excited to continue that work here at Carroll College. What she likes most about working with this age group is getting the watch their metamorphosis from adolescence into adulthood. She feels that Carroll was an enormous influence on her own development and she is looking forward to helping Carroll students with their own journeys.
When Megan's not at work, she says that you can find her hiking, snowshoeing, kayaking and taming her two miniature dachshunds (ooh sounds ferocious).