Dr. Valerie Whittlesey
Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs and Professor of Psychology.


Valerie Whittlesey is Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs and Professor of Psychology at Kennesaw State University. Previously, she served four years as Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs and Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) Fellow. From 1998 to 2002, she served as Chair of the Psychology Department at KSU. She received her Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from Cornell University in 1985. She served as a faculty member at Lincoln University prior to joining the faculty at Kennesaw State. Also, she completed a post-doctoral program in the Psychology Department at the University of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Whittlesey has taught courses in General Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Statistics, Black Psychology, Career Issues in Psychology, and the Senior Seminar in Psychology. She has published journal articles, books, and chapters of books on the racial attitudes of children, racial and social class similarities and differences in children's conceptual development, undergraduate program assessment, and diversity in the psychology curriculum.

Dr. Whittlesey is currently Secretary of the Society for the Teaching of Psychology of the American Psychological Association. She is a member of the American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society, and the Southeastern Psychological Association.