[Bgs-list] Fwd: Harold E. Cheatham Innovative Practice Award

Wed Mar 24 17:09:39 EDT 2021

Dean Cheatham,
                            I want to congratulate you, sir, on your
recognition and an award being made in your name! It reflects the high
level of excellence that I grew to respect and admire over the years I
worked for you. Especially, when you took over the responsibilities of
bringing the College of HEHD and the many departments together and to
function as a unified system. You always elevated the level of performance
of all of those around you and it was indeed a privilege to have worked for
you sir. Congratulations and my family sends our love to you and yours sir!
Take care and be blessed always sir!

Regards,
Dexter

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Dexter F. Stowers   <https://my.clemson.edu/#/directory/person/dexter>
                                               dexter at g.clemson.edu
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AAIS, CCIT, Clemson University
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On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 2:12 PM Travis Smith <tcsmith1906 at gmail.com> wrote:

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> *From: *ACPA <info at acpa.nche.edu>
> *Subject: **Harold E. Cheatham Innovative Practice Award*
> *Date: *March 24, 2021 at 2:00:23 PM EDT
> *To: *Travis Smith <tcsmith1906 at gmail.com>
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> ACPA-College Student Educators International (ACPA) Renames Award to *The
> Harold E. Cheatham Innovative Practice Award*
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> The ACPA Governing Board is honored to announce the unanimous approval of
> the renaming of the Innovative Practice Award to The Harold E. Cheatham
> Innovative Practice Award.
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> Dr. Harold Cheatham was the fifty-sixth President of ACPA during the
> 1995-1996 year, and was the first African American male to hold this
> leadership role in the Association. The ACPA Innovative Practice Award
> recognizes the outstanding work of a campus practitioner who is innovative
> in their approach, and who has made a significant impact on student
> communities on their campus. The award honors practitioners who are making
> a difference at the local level and are successfully trying and assessing
> new and creative approaches to our work, qualities that Dr. Cheatham
> exemplifies today and throughout his career of distinction.
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> Dr. Cheatham's path to a career in higher education came through service
> in the U.S. Navy, a career in high school teaching, and by the guidance of
> faculty and administrator mentors who encouraged him to become a campus
> practitioner. Dr. Cheatham was successful in his early career, but as it
> coincided with the tumultuous times of the late 1960s he experienced a
> similar burnout that so many practitioners have when their personal and
> professional lives are intertwined. This experience led him away from
> student affairs and into the classroom at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy
> where he taught psychology to a quickly changing military, teaching during
> the growth of African American enrollment at the academy and during the
> enrollment of the first women to the institution.
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> Through his writing Dr. Cheatham discussed the impact of a changing
> student body on the classroom in higher education, leading him to
> contribute pieces on student support for women and African American
> students to the *Journal of College Student Development*(JCSD). These
> writings became a pathway to Association leadership, including service as a
> convention program chair, JCSD editorial board member, Media Board chair
> and editor, and membership on ACPA/NASPA Task Force and ACPA Theory and
> Research Board. These experiences in turn led Dr. Cheatham to become a
> candidate for Association President, a role he held in 1995-1996.
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> Dr. Cheatham understood that his election as ACPA President would coincide
> with a time of innovation for the Association. He noted: “The new ACPA
> remains at a historical crossroad. To claim our destiny, we must elect and
> support those who will selflessly contribute to the development and
> implementation of a coherent five-to-ten year plan. The primary task of
> elected leadership is critical review of existing goals to identify those
> that remain in the best interest of ACPA. In broad consultation with the
> membership, the leaders must set priorities and derive structures and
> vehicles to ensure attainment of the identified goals during the next
> several years. Principal among my goals as president would be to secure
> ACPA’s enunciated values as an inclusive and multi-cultural organization,
> and an organization that takes seriously its role in higher education.”
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> Dr. Cheatham established mutually respectful working relationships with
> his immediate predecessors who, among the many challenges, each had made
> contributions that established the ACPA we know today, building a team of
> leaders to guide the Association. This innovative, and collaborative
> structure established for members a path to the future of the Association,
> one reflective of the changing demographics of its membership.
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> During his ACPA presidency, Cheatham became the first African American,
> academic dean in Clemson University history when he was named founding dean
> of the university’s College of Health, Education, and Human Development. He
> served in this post from 1996 until retiring in 2001. A 1990-91 Senior
> Fulbright Scholar to India, Dr. Cheatham is a distinguished member of the
> National Society of Collegiate Scholars, and a member of Skull and Bones
> Society, Sigma Pi Phi, and Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternities. Cheatham is a life
> member of Phi Kappa Phi, and the Fulbright Scholars Association. Additional
> to his ACPA publications service, he has served on the editorial boards of
> the *Career Development Quarterly, Western Journal of Black Studies*, and
> the *Journal of Black Psychology*. His writing and research addressed
> multicultural counseling theory and practice, cultural pluralism, and
> psychosocial development of African Americans in US higher education.
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> *This year (2021), Dr. Cheatham was recognized with ACPA’s Lifetime
> Achievement Award*, but this is not the first accolade received from the
> Association. In 1993, ACPA honored Cheatham with the Contribution to
> Knowledge Award and induction as a Senior Scholar. He also received the
> Pennsylvania College Personnel Association Award in 1994, and then in 1999
> Dr. Cheatham received the Esther Lloyd Jones Professional Service Award and
> induction into the ACPA Foundation Class of Diamond Honorees.
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> Now Dean Emeritus and Professor Emeritus of counseling and education
> leadership at Clemson University, Dr. Cheatham continues his involvement in
> community and church service, having chaired the City of Clemson Planning
> Commission for a ten year appointment, and serving on the advisory boards
> of AnMed Foundation and Wachovia Bank. He was a gubernatorial appointee to
> the South Carolina Mental Health Commission (2004-2009), is a member of the
> Fort Hill Presbyterian Church (Clemson, SC) Medical Mission Team, and a
> valued contributor to the Foothills Presbyterian Unity and Community, and
> Investigative committees.
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> We congratulate Dr. Cheatham on leading a life, career, and legacy that is
> an inspiration for us all. It is our distinct pleasure to name The Harold
> E. Cheatham Innovative Practice Award in your honor. Applications for this
> award will next be accepted in fall 2021, so begin thinking about who to
> nominate for the *Harold E. Cheatham Innovative Practice Award* later
> this year.
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> Sincerely,
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> *ACPA Governing Board*
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