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Merrily Dunn , Ph.D. |
National Housing Training Institute: University of Maryland June 25-29th, 2002.
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Merrily Dunn (Presently an Assistant Professor at the University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia)
Since 1993 Merrily Dunn has worked as a faculty member and coordinator of the student affairs in higher education emphasis area of the counselor education program at Mississippi State University. In this capacity she teaches a wide range of courses covering student affairs administration, student development theory, legal issues in higher education, gender issues in counseling and university and community college governance, instruction and curriculum. Her research interests center on a variety of housing and residence life issues, the process and content of graduate preparation programs and the history of higher education. Professionally she is active in ACUHO-I through the academic initiatives committee and in the Southern Association of College Student Affairs as an associate journal editor and chairperson of the professional preparations and standards committee.
Merrily holds a B.A. in political science from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where she was a student assistant and worked in a variety of student government positions in the residence halls. She holds an M.S. degree in Professional Studies in Higher Education from Iowa State University where she worked as a hall advisor. She has also worked professionally as a residence hall director at Marquette University and as the judicial affairs coordinator for residence and dining halls at The Ohio State University. She holds a Ph.D. in higher education administration from Ohio State.
Currently, Merrily maintains her connection to housing through occasional training on student development theory, legal issues and staff supervision as well as supervising practicum and internship students working in the residence halls. She has also served as a faculty member at the National Housing Training Institute in 1998 and 2000 and as the Scholar in Residence at the 2000 ACUHO-I conference.
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