John Wesley Lowery, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Higher Education

Educational Leadership & Policies

University of South Carolina

 

John Wesley Lowery is an Assistant Professor of Higher Education in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policies at the University of South Carolina. He earned his doctorate at Bowling Green State University in Higher Education Administration. While at BGSU, John served in a variety of roles including Editorial Assistant for About Campus and Visiting Instructor for BGSU’s College Student Personnel Program. Before beginning his doctoral work in 1996, he was Director of Residence Life at Adrian College in Michigan and University Judicial Administrator at Washington University in St. Louis.

  John has been very active in professional associations. He served as a Director-at-Large for the Association for Student Judicial Affairs (ASJA) from 1996 until 1999. He has previously chaired the Legislative Issues and Resolutions Committees of the Association as well as co-chairing the Interassociation Task Force on the National Baseline Study on Campus Sexual Assault. John currently serves on the Core Council on Outreach and Advocacy for the American College Personnel Association (ACPA) and previously served on the directorate body of Commission 15: Campus Judicial Affairs and Legal Issues of ACPA.

  John has a Masters degree in student personnel services from the University of South Carolina and his undergraduate degree in religious studies is from the University of Virginia. He is a frequent speaker and author on topics related to student affairs and higher education, particularly legislative issues and student judicial affairs. In recent years, John has presented at numerous conferences including, the American College Personnel Association, the Association for Student Judicial Affairs, Donald D. Gehring Campus Judicial Affairs Training Institute, the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators, the Stetson University Law and Higher Education Conference, and the University of Vermont’s Legal Issues in Higher Education Conference.

  In addition, John serves as Associate Editor of Synthesis: Law and Policy in Higher Education and Contributing Editor to Synfax Bulletin: A Weekly Annotated Digest of Critical Issues in Higher Education. He also writes a regular column in the Report on Campus and Community Safety, Washington Word. He is the author of a chapter in Balancing Ethical, Legal, and Development Concerns in Student Affairs Practice entitled Institution Policy and Individual Responsibility: Communities of Justice and Principle.

Over his career, John has been honored by several professional organizations. In February 2001, he received the Association for Student Judicial Affairs' Distinguished Service Award for "exceptional service over time to ASJA." In April 2000, he received the President's Award Distinguished Service as a graduate student from Bowling Green State University. In 1999, John received the Student Contribution to the Higher Education Profession Award from the Department of Higher Education and Student Affairs at BGSU and received the Outstanding Doctoral Student Award from the Standing Committee for Graduate Students and New Professional of ACPA. In 1997, he was the Graduate Student Case Study Competition sponsored ASJA. In 1996, he received an Annuit Coeptis Award for Emerging Professionals from ACPA and received the Outstanding Research in Judicial Affairs & Legal Issues Award from Commission XV: Campus Judicial Affairs & Legal Issues of ACPA. In 1993, he received the Outstanding New Professional in Judicial Affairs Award from ASJA. While a student at the University of South Carolina, John received the Dr. Gerald L. Saddlemire Outstanding Graduate Student Award from ACPA and South Carolina College Personnel Association's Achievement Award.  

For additional information contact:

John Wesley Lowery, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Educational Leadership & Policies

University of South Carolina

Wardlaw College, Room 312

Columbia, SC 29208

803-777-4158 office

803-777-3090 fax

jlowery@gwm.sc.edu