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Caryl Knutsen

Assistant Director
608-262-0710 
cknutsen@bus.wisc.edu

Caryl is the assistant director of the Grainger Center for Supply Chain Management at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business. Managing the daily operations of the Grainger Center, she works with current and prospective students, alumni, employers, faculty, the Center’s executive advisory board, industry professionals, and deans and administrators within the School of Business. Caryl leads the Center’s marketing and communications activities and manages the production of all Center publications. She also coordinates the Center’s applied learning curriculum, which includes executive speakers, industry-led seminars, networking events, and corporate site visits. Caryl develops and recommends improvements for processes related to admissions and recruiting, student services, and programming for undergraduate and MBA students; coordinates alumni development activities; manages the work of three project assistants; and synthesizes information from various sources and surveys to create reports as needed. Caryl has been with the Grainger Center for seven years. She holds a bachelor of arts degree in English. Before joining the UW-Madison School of Business, she worked in scholarly publishing for many years at the University of Pennsylvania.

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