Pope-Davis
will become DePaul’s chief academic officer in July, stepping into the
position held on an interim basis this academic year by Patricia
O’Donoghue, DePaul’s vice president for alumni outreach and engagement.
O’Donoghue succeeded Helmut Epp, who served as provost for the previous
seven years.
In the role as DePaul’s provost, Pope-Davis will oversee Academic Affairs, which includes Enrollment Management and Marketing, Student Affairs, and Teaching and Learning Resources.
“We think highly of Dr. Pope-Davis’ intellectual work as well as his broad service to his colleagues in academic administration at Notre Dame,” said the Rev. Dennis Holtschneider, C.M., president. “Unanimously, everyone at DePaul also was moved by his obvious love for students, especially those who are the first to attend college in their families.”
In the role as DePaul’s provost, Pope-Davis will oversee Academic Affairs, which includes Enrollment Management and Marketing, Student Affairs, and Teaching and Learning Resources.
“We think highly of Dr. Pope-Davis’ intellectual work as well as his broad service to his colleagues in academic administration at Notre Dame,” said the Rev. Dennis Holtschneider, C.M., president. “Unanimously, everyone at DePaul also was moved by his obvious love for students, especially those who are the first to attend college in their families.”
Elected
to his current position at Notre Dame in 2007, Pope-Davis currently is
responsible for expanding opportunities and participation in
undergraduate scholarship and research, implementing the Undergraduate
Academic Code of Honor and leading the university’s enrollment
management efforts by overseeing the Office of Undergraduate Admissions
and the Office of Student Financial Services. He also provides oversight
to the university’s First Year of Studies, ROTC programs, Center for
Undergraduate Scholarly Engagement, Hesburgh-Yusko Scholars Program,
Office of Disability Services, DeBartolo Performing Arts Center, Snite
Museum of Art, Institute for Church Life and Center for Social Concerns.
His
other administrative experience at Notre Dame includes coordination of
the Multicultural Research Institute, direction of the TRIO programs –
the McNair Scholars Program, Upward Bound and Talent Search, all
federally funded educational opportunity outreach programs designed to
motivate and support students from disadvantaged backgrounds –and the
leadership of the Moreau Academic Diversity Postdoctoral Fellowship
Program, an initiative to attract scholars from underrepresented groups
to Notre Dame for research and engagement of issues related to
multiculturalism and diversity. Pope-Davis served for three years as
chair of Notre Dame’s Faculty Board on Athletics and its NCAA faculty
athletics representative. He also has served on the provost’s advisory
and diversity committees.
A
member of the Notre Dame faculty since 2000, Pope-Davis studies in the
areas of multicultural psychology, counseling and education.
Specifically, he is interested in cultural and racial identity
development, cultural competency training, development and assessment.
Other areas of research include multicultural supervision in
professional psychology, development of multicultural measures for
assessing environments and supervision, issues of mental health of
people of color and cross-cultural communications.
Pope-Davis
recently co-authored a report on African-American Catholics in 2011.
The largest sampling ever of its kind, the survey examined the religious
engagement of African-Americans with the Catholic Church and identified
demographic trends facing the church.
Pope-Davis
earned his doctorate in counseling psychology from Stanford University,
his master’s degree from Indiana University and his bachelor’s degree
in psychology and theology from Benedictine University in Lisle, Ill. He
previously taught and conducted research at the University of Maryland
for six years and the University of Iowa for five years.
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DePaul Newsline, February 26, 2013
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