Q&A with Benny Vaughn and Dr. Joan Carroll

Dr. Joan Carroll, MAPE ’84, Ph.D. ’92, and Benny Vaughn, BSHSE ’85, are lifelong supporters of the College of Health & Human Performance. In support of students who have demonstrated active and sustained leadership and service, they created an endowed student scholarship.

In this profile, they share more about the impact the college has had on them, their advice to students and where they go for inspiration.

What is your favorite Health & Human Performance memory? Your most memorable professor/class?

• BV: Meeting my spouse 😀
• JC: My most memorable professor not in HHP was Dr Robert Primack in the College of Education, who drilled us in the importance of critical and factual thinking, something that has been of value my entire life. My most memorable HHP professor was of course my Ph.D. mentor, Dr. Michael Pollock, who was so unselfish in giving his time and experience to all his students.

What’s your best advice to current students/graduating seniors/graduate students?

As if the last six months hasn’t already proven this true, you will see so many changes in your career. Use your time at UF to train well to be able to adapt to the many changes that you will see.

What does UF mean to you?

It feels like coming home whenever we visit.