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Carole Huxley

Carole HuxleyCarole Huxley has spent her entire career in education, focused largely on the educational resources found beyond the formal classroom. She retired in November, 2006 from 24 years as the Deputy Commissioner for Cultural Education in the NYS Education Department, with responsibility for the New York State Archives, State Library, State Museum and aid to libraries, records repositories and public broadcasting statewide. She came to New York from the National Endowment for the Humanities, where she was Director of the Division of Special Programs. Before going to Washington, Ms. Huxley was with the American Field Service (AFS International) in New York City, an international high school student program. In Connecticut, where she grew up, she taught high school English in Woodbury after receiving her Master of Arts in Teaching at Harvard. She earned her undergraduate BA degree at Mount Holyoke College.

July 13, 2011 3:19 PMsearch Library Group, the National Commission on Preservation and Access, and the New York Council on the Humanities. Her volunteer work has included four terms on the Mount Holyoke Board, including serving as the chair of the last presidential search; locally, she served the board of the Albany Medical Center in the 1980’s, and the board of the Albany Red Cross board; currently, she is on the boards of Historic Cherry Hill and the New Netherland Institute.

She and her husband, Michael, have two sons, Ian and Sam, a daughter-in-law, Elsa, and a 3-year-old granddaughter, Amelia.

 

Last Updated: April 21, 2009 11:33 AM