Salyer is heralded by her nominators as a talented professor, an outstanding leader and an especially generous and skilled mentor in the department of exercise and sport science. “She is a caring person who has gone above and beyond the call of duty to foster student development. … Carolina has been made a better educational institution because of her presence,” praised a colleague.
Regularly rated as “excellent” on student course evaluations, she is a seven-time finalist for the department’s Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award, and winner in 2001 and 2007.