Carriuolo served as the director of the Office of School/College Relations at the
New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC) and, immediately prior to joining the Office of Higher Education, served as Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the
University of New Haven, where she became a tenured full professor of English in 1987. She also has experience as a junior- and senior-high school teacher and department chair. Carriuolo is the author of over 30 publications with regional, national, or international audiences. Paul Simon, while a U.S. senator, read into the
Congressional Record one of her essays originally published in the
Chronicle of Higher Education. Carriuolo has published three essays in the Chronicle, most recently on April 18, 2010. Her most recent essay described the campus-wide budget review process that saved $3/4M in her first year as president. She has also published an essay in
Education Week, the K-12 companion periodical of the Chronicle. At the invitation of Dr. John Gardner, creator of the internationally known Freshman-Year Experience series, Carriuolo also wrote a monograph on PK-16 partnerships. Carriuolo has worked with a number of regional, national, and international higher education and business organizations as a consultant, is affiliated with several professional associations, and is a past president of the
National Association for Developmental Education. In 2009, she received national recognition for her lifelong achievement in developmental education when named a CLADEA fellow. Carriuolo is a longstanding member of the board of the
Journal of Developmental Education. She was also the founding statewide leader of the Rhode Island Chapter of the
American Council on Education's network of women leaders in higher education. She also served on the board of
New England Dollars for Scholars and is currently a member of the boards of the Tech Collective as well as the
Association for Authentic and Evidence-based Learning (AAEEBL), an international association. She serves on the executive committee of the statewide Campus Compact and on the board of the Veterans Auditorium (the Vets). In 2018 an e-book of selected correspondence by Rhode Island social activist, journalist and RIC adjunct faculty member
Richard Walton was edited by Carriuolo &
Herbert Weiss and published to commemorate Walton's life and activism. ==Education==