Carl Krieger

Director, Well-Being Programs

Carl Krieger serves as director of Well-being Programs, where he encourages students to learn about nutrition and cooking through the demonstration kitchen, build their financial well-being skills through Boiler Financial Track programs (a collaboration with Purdue Federal Credit Union), and to engage with their overall well-being with the plethora of well-being programs offered at Purdue. In this role, he also shepherds the Steps to Leaps program, a campuswide program focused on student well-being. During his decade-plus tenure at Purdue, Krieger has served as director of residential education for Student Life and as director of Residential Life.  

Krieger has overseen the creation or growth of residential learning programs at Duke University, Virginia Tech and Purdue University. At Virginia Tech, he helped create the residential college program and oversaw the first residential college on campus.  While in this role, he co-founded the Residential College Symposium, a national conference that provides a learning network for faculty and student affairs educators to share knowledge, build community and advance scholarship about the residential college experience.  

Krieger strives to bring faculty members and student affairs educators together to provide integrated experiential learning programs. His research focus is the impact of various programs and communities on a student’s feeling of belonging and connectedness to their university. His most recent book chapter within The Faculty Factor: Developing Faculty Engagement within Living-Learning Communities, is titled “Laying the Foundation for a Living-Learning Community: Building Strong Faculty-Residential Life Partnerships.”