Carolyn Hope Ringer Lepre is an American mass communication professor and academic administrator serving as the tenth president of Salisbury University since 2022.

[4] Her 2000 dissertation was titled, Effects of a Persuasive Communication on Undecided Undergraduate Students' Attitudes, Beliefs, and Intentions to Seek Career Counseling.

[2] After graduation, Lepre joined the department of journalism at the California State University, Chico as an assistant professor.

[5] She worked as a mass communications and journalism professor and academic administrator at Marist College for eight years.

[4] From 2020 to 2021, Lepre was the provost and vice president for academic affairs at Radford University.