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Communications and Media Relations Coordinator
VALDOSTA — Dr. Richard A. 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 service at VSU and to the community.
Copeland joined the faculty of VSU’s Harley Langdale Jr. College of Business Administration 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 research interests are real property and partition actions, “specifically the impact of those proceedings on heir property,” he shared.
“I also enjoy analyzing many civil rights laws and their impact on the African American community.”
VSU: Teaching, mentoring, and conducting research are already full-time jobs. What motivates you to make time for service?
Copeland: 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.
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