Dr. Celia Hooper.
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Posted 5-23-07
Dr. Celia Hooper, head of the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, has been named interim dean of the School of Health and Human Performance at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
She will assume leadership of the school when Dean David H. Perrin begins his new duties as provost July 1. The school includes the departments of Communication Sciences and Disorders; Dance; Exercise and Sport Science; Public Health Education; and Recreation, Tourism, and Hospitality Management and the Center for Women’s Health and Wellness.
“Dr. Hooper has been a superb department head of communication sciences and disorders,” Perrin said. “She has the leadership skills and vision to maintain the school’s forward momentum. I don't expect HHP will miss a beat under her leadership.”
Hooper, who earned her master’s degree in speech-language pathology at UNCG in 1974, led the planning for a doctoral program in CSD, which begins offering courses in the fall. She also established the Applied Communicative Sciences Laboratory, where undergraduate and graduate students from several departments conduct research related to speaking and singing.
“I am very excited to serve HHP in the coming year,” Hooper said. “As a UNCG alumna, this is especially meaningful. Since I have been here as a department head I have worked with faculty in all of the HHP departments and look forward to continuing that work in a different role. David Perrin completed some exciting initiatives as dean and he is leaving the school in wonderful shape.”
She has served a three-year term as vice president of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association and is president-elect of the Council of Academic Programs in Communication Sciences and Disorders. Prior to joining UNCG in 2003, she was on the faculty at UNC Chapel Hill, the University of Kansas and Case Western Reserve University. She earned her bachelor’s degree at Wake Forest University and her doctorate at Case Western Reserve.
Dr. Robert Mayo, the School of Health and Human Performance’s associate dean for academic affairs, will become interim head of the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders. Perrin will name a committee in the next few weeks to conduct a nationwide search for the school’s next dean.
