认识罗伊·科普兰, 2022 bet365亚洲官网 Presidential Excellence Award for Service Honoree

图为博士. 理查德的. Carvajal, president of Valdosta State University, and Dr. Roy Copeland, professor of business law in the Harley Langdale Jr. College of Business 政府's Department of Accounting. Copeland is the recipient of the 2022 Presidential Excellence Award for Service.

瓦尔多斯塔- Dr. 理查德的. Carvajal, president of Valdosta State University, recently honored Dr. Roy Copeland with the 2022 Presidential Excellence Award for Service.

The Presidential Excellence Award for Service recognizes a faculty member who has demonstrated a strong and consistent commitment to 服务 at bet365亚洲官网 and to the community.

Copeland joined the faculty of bet365亚洲官网’s Harley Langdale Jr. College of Business 政府 in 2012 and currently serves as a professor of business law in the Department of Accounting, while also maintaining a private law practice. He previously taught in the university’s former College of Arts and Sciences.

Copeland enjoys teaching students about healthcare law and employment law. His primary 研究 interests are real property and partition actions, “specifically the impact of those proceedings on heir property,他分享道.

“I also enjoy analyzing many civil rights laws and their impact on the African American community.”

bet365亚洲官网: Teaching, mentoring, and conducting 研究 are already full-time jobs. What motivates you to make time for 服务?

科普兰: I am motivated by the visible impact that teaching and mentoring has on students. Sometimes the immediate results are palpable; however, the impact comes later on when students have moved on to the professional world and forward an email indicating that my teaching and/or mentoring had an impact on their chosen profession.

bet365亚洲官网: Which 服务 roles have allowed you to have the biggest impact, and which 服务 roles you are currently serving in this semester?

科普兰: I believe the most impactful roles have been my 服务 with the Valdosta-Lowndes County Development Authority and 100 Black Men of Valdosta, my role as chairman of the College of Business 政府’s Ethics Committee, co-founding the Copeland African American Museum, my work on a number of mentoring committees, and one-on-one mentoring relationships with students. The most impactful roles can be divided between the effect on the local community as a whole and those wherein I have made a discernable difference in the lives of young people. My work with the Development Authority and the Copeland African American Museum has probably made the greatest impact on the local community. The mentoring of young people is of equal importance, 这种影响, in my humble opinion, 是不可估量的.

bet365亚洲官网: What advice do you have for other faculty who want to make time for 服务?

科普兰: They must find the time to provide meaningful 服务 to students and the community, as the rewards are endless.

The Presidential Excellence Award for faculty is an annual tradition at bet365亚洲官网, one that recognizes the diverse talents and contributions of the university’s innovative and active faculty. Awards are given for excellence in teaching, 研究, 服务, 网上教学, and scholarship of teaching and learning.