{"id":2178,"date":"2026-10-14T16:07:26","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T16:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.www.purdue.edu\/bop-plus\/?p=2178"},"modified":"2026-10-16T14:09:52","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T14:09:52","slug":"carol-ben-davies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/bop-plus\/carol-ben-davies\/","title":{"rendered":"Carol Ben-Davies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"modal-ready\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Carol Ben-Davies<br><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Assistant Director, Boilermaker Opportunity Program Plus<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>What I do:<\/strong> My work is about helping students and families imagine a path to college and feel supported along the way. Through leadership of our REACH Ambassadors program, first-generation student support, Saturday with the Boilermakers event and early outreach in Tippecanoe County, I connect students with the people, experiences and information that can help them prepare for and thrive at Purdue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Background:<\/strong> I am a proud graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Loyola University Chicago and have spent my career helping students access, navigate and thrive in college. My professional journey has included admissions and student affairs roles at UNC-Chapel Hill, Northwestern University, the University of Mary Washington and Purdue. I first joined Purdue in 2007 and returned in 2024, bringing with me a passion for helping students and families see college as a transformative place where they can belong and create their own path.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>More about me:<\/strong> Outside of Purdue, I enjoy spending time with my husband and our two daughters, serving at Star City Church and in our community, and dreaming about my dad\u2019s cheesecake. Whether I\u2019m working with students, families or colleagues, I believe we&#8217;re all on a journey, and meaningful relationships can make all the difference along the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carol Ben-Davies Assistant Director, Boilermaker Opportunity Program Plus What I do: My work is about helping students and families imagine a path to college and feel supported along the way. Through leadership of our REACH Ambassadors program, first-generation student support,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/bop-plus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/bop-plus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/bop-plus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/bop-plus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/bop-plus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2178"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/bop-plus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2400,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/bop-plus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2178\/revisions\/2400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/bop-plus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/bop-plus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/bop-plus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}