Carroll Vincent Newsom (February 23, 1904 - February 3, 1990) was an American educator who served as the tenth NYU president and president of Prentice Hall.

Newsom was born February 23, 1904, in Buckley, Illinois.

[1] He commenced his academic career in 1924 as a mathematics instructor at the College of Emporia.

He was professor of mathematics and chairman of the science division at Oberlin College from 1944 to 1948.

His wife, Frances Jeanne Higley, died June 3, 1989, in Dublin, OH.