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

Thu Mar 25 11:37:46 EDT 2021

Thanks, Rob! 

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> On Mar 25, 2021, at 8:03 AM, Rob Currie <robdcurrie at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 2:12 PM Travis Smith <tcsmith1906 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, what are you doing for others?” 
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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>
>>> Reply-To: ACPA <info at acpa.nche.edu>
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>>> ACPA-College Student Educators International (ACPA) Renames Award to The Harold E. Cheatham Innovative Practice Award
>>> 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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