Larry Roper is a Professor of School of Language, Culture and Society and Coordinator of the Social Justice Minor in the College of Liberal Arts at Oregon State University.  Larry also serves as Program Lead for the College Student Services Administration program, which prepares students at the Masters level to work in the student services arena. Previously, he served Oregon State University as Vice Provost for Student Affairs from 1995-2014. He also served for 18 months as Interim Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at OSU. He has held numerous positions in student affairs throughout the U.S. 

Larry currently serves as a Commissioner with the State of Oregon’s Higher Education Coordinating Commission and as a Board of Trustee member for Heidelberg University, his alma mater.  He served a 6-year term as a Commissioner with the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities.  Additionally, he served locally as President of the Board of Jackson Street Youth Services, which serves homeless and vulnerable youth; President of United Way, on the Board of Community Outreach, Inc, and the OSU Credit Union Board.

Larry has more than 60 publications in the form of book chapters, journal articles, magazine articles, book reviews and monographs.  He is co-editor of the forthcoming monograph, Centering Dialogue in Leadership Development (in press). He has edited or co-edited three other books and writes a regular column for the Journal of College and Character.  He has also served on more than 80 thesis or dissertation committees, having chaired more than 40.

Larry has degrees from Heidelberg University (A.B., History), Bowling Green State University (M.A., College Student Personnel), and the University of Maryland (Ph.D., College Student Personnel Administration).