TUESDAY L. COOPER is associate dean of the school of Education/Professional Studies and Graduate Division at Eastern Connecticut State University. Before joining Eastern in August 2003, she served on the faculty at Springfield College. She holds a Doctorate of Education from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, a law degree from Western New England College School of Law, and a Bachelors of Science in political science from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. In 2001, she was awarded a Connecticut Community Technical Colleges’ Board of Trustees Minority Administrative Fellows position with Asnuntuck Community College. In addition, she has been awarded the American Association for Higher Education’s Nellie Mae Scholarship and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst Teaching and Learning in the Diverse Classroom Fellowship.
Dr. Cooper is coauthor of Diversity on Campus with David Schuman and Carolyn M. Pillow (2004, Kendall/Hunt). Her research interests include tenure, faculty and department chair development, education law, civil rights law, and Critical Race Theory. She is a member of the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education.