Cooper Receives National Teaching Award in Student Affairs

Diane L. Cooper, associate professor and head of UGA’s department of counseling and human development services, has received the Outstanding Contributions to Student Affairs Through Teaching Award from the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA).

She has received numerous university and professional awards for her teaching and scholarship in student affairs including the Melvene Draheim Hardee Award for “exceptional research, scholarship and leadership in student personnel work,” from the Southern Association of College Student Affairs in 2000.

Cooper is the author of numerous books including Identity Development of Diverse Populations: Implications for Teaching and Practice in Higher Education (2004) and Learning Through Supervised Practice in Student Affairs (2003), a widely used New Directions Series monograph Beyond Law and Policy: Reaffirming the Role of Student Affairs and Assessment Instruments including the Student Developmental Task and Lifestyle Assessment (SDTLA) (1999 with UGA professors emeriti Theodore K. Miller and Roger B. Winston, Jr.). In addition, she has authored 15 book chapters, and numerous journal articles. Her research interests are in program design and assessment, legal and ethical issues in student affairs practice, and in professional issues related to underrepresented groups in higher education.

She has served on the editorial board for The Journal of College Student Development and The Georgia Journal of College Student Affairs and was editor of The College Student Affairs Journal for six years.

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.

Thursday, July 1, 2004

WRITER: Michael Childs, 706/542-5889, mchilds@coe.uga.edu
CONTACT: Diane L. Cooper, 706/542-4120, dlcooper@coe.uga.edu