Diane L. Cooper, associate professor of counseling and human development services, has received the highest award given by the Southern Association of College Student Affairs for her contributions to the field.
Cooper, who serves as coordinator of the College Student Affairs Administration master's program at UGA, was recently awarded the Melvene Draheim Hardee Award for "exceptional research, scholarship and leadership in student personnel work."
She is the author of a New Directions Series monograph, Beyond Law and Policy: Reaffirming the Role of Student Affairs with James Lancaster in 1997, the Student Developmental Task and Lifestyle Assessment with Theodore K. Miller and Roger B. Winston, Jr. in 1999, five book chapters and numerous journal articles.
Cooper is currently serving as a SACSA Scholar and on the Professional Development Core Council for the American College Personnel Association. She is on the editorial board for the Journal of College Student Development and the Georgia Journal of College Student Affairs. She also served for six years as editor for the College Student Affairs Journal.
Before joining the UGA faculty in 1996, Cooper was a faculty member in student development at Appalachian State University for four years. Prior to that, she served for eight years as a student affairs practitioner at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Cooper received her Ph.D. in counselor education from the University of Iowa in 1985 with a concentration in post-secondary education and vocational development. She earned her M.Ed. from the University of Missouri at St. Louis in counseling in 1979 and a bachelor's in marketing management from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio in 1978.
Her research interests are in program design and assessment, legal and
ethical issues in student affairs practice, and professional issues related
to underrepresented groups in higher education.
Thursday, November 16, 2000
Writer: Michael Childs, 706/542-5889, mchilds@coe.uga.edu
Contact: Diane L. Cooper, 706/542-4120, dlcooper@coe.uga.edu