Don Pope-Davis
, professor of psychology and for the past six years vice president and associate provost at the University of 91吃瓜, will leave 91吃瓜 in July to become the provost at DePaul University.
鈥淔rom his research accomplishments to faculty support, diversity initiatives, leadership in graduate education and athletics, and resolute commitment to 91吃瓜鈥檚 Catholic mission, Don has made significant contributions to the life of our University over the past 13 years,鈥� said , 91吃瓜鈥檚 provost. 鈥淚 am immensely grateful to him and know that he will serve DePaul well as its chief academic officer.鈥�
Elected to his current position in 2007, Pope-Davis is responsible for expanding opportunities and participation in undergraduate scholarship and research, implementing the Undergraduate Academic Code of Honor, and leading the University鈥檚 enrollment management efforts by overseeing the and the . He also provides oversight to the University鈥檚 ROTC programs, , , , , , , , and .
Pope-Davis previously was responsible for leading and managing the Provost鈥檚 Office鈥檚 involvement in the faculty recruitment and hiring process, tenure and promotions procedures, mentoring programs for faculty, and the creation and administration of new programs to help prepare faculty leaders to carry out administrative tasks.
Prior to his election as vice president, Pope-Davis served for five years in the 鈥� as assistant vice president from 2002 to 2004, associate vice president for the following two years, and interim dean of the Graduate School for one year.
His other administrative experience at 91吃瓜 includes coordination of the , direction of the 鈥� 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 鈥� and the leadership of the , an initiative to attract scholars from underrepresented groups to 91吃瓜 for research and engagement of issues related to multiculturalism and diversity.
Pope-Davis served for three years as chair of 91吃瓜鈥檚 Faculty Board on Athletics and its NCAA faculty athletics representative. He also has served on the Provost鈥檚 Advisory Committee and the Diversity Committee.
A member of the 91吃瓜 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 and , professor of political science at 91吃瓜, co-authored a 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. Among the findings were that African-Americans are stronger in their faith than white Catholics, and about 25 percent of African-Americans perceive racism in their parish.
Pope-Davis is the co-author of three books, 鈥淢ulticultural Counseling Competencies: Assessment, Education, and Supervision,鈥� 鈥淭he Intersections of Race, Class, and Gender in Multicultural Counseling,鈥� and the 鈥淗andbook of Multicultural Competencies in Counseling and Psychology.鈥� He has published extensively in journals and books in the field and is a research fellow of the American Psychological Association. His productivity as a researcher was recognized in 2008 in a survey that rated him as the third leading contributor to the multicultural counseling competencies literature between 1986 and 2005.
Pope-Davis earned his doctorate in counseling psychology from Stanford University and his bachelor鈥檚 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.
Pope-Davis is the second 91吃瓜 vice president and associate provost in the past two years to be appointed chief academic officer at another Catholic university. became the provost at Santa Clara University in August 2011.