Join CoopLew and Diverse: Issues In Higher Education for a national conversation about three big diversity-related questions in higher education resulting in the onset of COVID-19. The COVID-19 Pandemic has drastically and perhaps permanently changed the way higher education delivers instruction. This change will impact faculty, students, staff, and administrators. In this live conversation, higher education experts will provide answers to questions that impact issues as access, accessibility, and possibilities for the future.
Co-Founder, CoopLew
A 4-time chief diversity officer, “Dr. Coop,” as students and colleagues call him, has earned national prominence as a transformative agent in higher education diversity administration. After serving at five institutions in three states, he instructs certification coursework at the national level. He holds certifications in cognitive diversity applications, diversity return on investment, diversity executive leadership, creative problem solving, and adaptive-innovation theory. Dr. Coop is an alum of Indiana State University. He is also a post-doctoral alum of both the Harvard Management Development Program and the American Association of State Colleges and Universities’ Millennium Leadership Initiative.
Dr. Coop is a member of the International Association of Diversity Officers and Vice President for the National Academic of Educational Research (NAER). He is also a past board member and co-chair of professional development for the National Association for Diversity Officers in Higher Education, and a past member of editorial, academic, natural disaster, and international boards.
He is Co-Founder of CoopLew, a diversity training consortium of researchers and scholars. CoopLew training has pioneered experiences that address and prepare participants for the transformation of chief diversity officer lived experiences. He is also Owner of Coopwood Progressive Workshops & Developments, LLC (CPWD), a multi-faceted diversity education, speaking, research and development company, and Vice President for DiversityWorks, a private, comprehensive, consulting company.
Dr. Coop earned his Ph.D. in educational administration, leadership, and foundations, his master’s degree in political science, with emphasis on federal policy, and his undergraduate degree in business administration, with an emphasis in finance, marketing, and management.
