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Our Team
Roger WorthingtonAssistant Deputy Chancellor for Diversity & Chief Diversity Officer
Roger L. Worthington, Ph.D. is the Assistant Deputy Chancellor and Chief Diversity Officer at the University of Missouri. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education (NADOHE) and serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Diversity in Higher Education (JDHE). Dr. Worthington is also the Vice President for Diversity and the Public Interest of the Society of Counseling Psychology (SCP) of the American Psychological Association (APA), the SCP coordinator for the 2011 National Multicultural Conference and Summit, and a member of the APA Task Force on Appropriate Therapeutic Responses to Sexual Orientation. He is the guest editor for a special issue of JDHE on “Measurement and Assessment in Campus Climate Research,” and a member of the guest editorial team for the Journal of Counseling Psychology on “Critical Conceptual and Methodological Issues in Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Research in Counseling Psychology.” From 1999 through 2005, Dr. Worthington was the architect and principal investigator for the MU Campus Climate Study, which included 5 phases of data collection and 3 volumes of reports. In 2005, he chaired a campus-wide Task Force for Campus Climate and Training. In 2007-08 he was one of the tri-chairs of the Task Force for a Veteran-Friendly Campus. Since 2006, Dr. Worthington has been the principal investigator and project director of the MU Difficult Dialogues Program, a project funded by two prestigious Ford Foundation grants. In addition to his role in the Chancellor’s Diversity Initiative, Dr. Worthington is a licensed psychologist and an associate professor of Educational, School and Counseling Psychology, where he has taught courses to undergraduate and graduate students on counseling & interpersonal skills, ethics and law for professional psychology, research design, measurement, and human diversity. He is a nationally recognized scholar on issues of human diversity in counseling and education. He has won numerous awards for service and teaching excellence, including the College of Education High Flyer Award (2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1998), the MU Graduate Professional Council’s Gold Chalk Award (2001), the University of Missouri Curators’ Faculty Performance Shares (2001), and the MU LGBT Resource Center’s Catalyst Award (2001). To view his complete vita, please click here. (pdf format) |
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