Mark Pope

Quick Facts

Full Name	Mark Pope
Occupation	Career Counselor
Date Of Birth	Apr 23, 1952(1952-04-23)
Age	72
Birthplace	St. Louis
Country	United States
Birth City	St. Louis
Horoscope	Taurus

Mark Pope Biography

Mark Pope is one of the most popular and richest Career Counselor who was born on April 23, 1952 in St. Louis, St. Louis, United States. Mark Pope, Ed.D. (born April 23, 1952 in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA) is Thomas Jefferson Professor and Curators’ Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Missouri – Saint Louis (1997–2018), where he was a colleague to the social theorist Robert Rocco Cottone. Dr. Pope also served from (2006-2016) as chair of the Department of Counseling and Family Therapy at that university. He was president of the American Counseling Association (2003–2004), National Career Development Association (1998–1999), Association for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Issues in Counseling (1976–1978), and Society for the Psychological Study of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Issues (Division 44 of the American Psychological Association) (2011–2012), and founder and first chair of the Professional Counseling Fund (2004–2006). Dr. Pope is widely considered to be one of the founders of and leading authors in the field of cultural diversity issues in career counseling and career development, especially gay and lesbian career development. His major publications have included writings in counseling with sexual minorities and international students, the history of and public policy issues in counseling, and professional identity. He also served as editor of The Career Development Quarterly (2004–2008), the preeminent journal in career counseling and development.

His other major contribution has been to the literature on the training of counselors and includes seven books on teaching career counseling classes (Experiential Activities for Teaching Career Counseling Classes and for Facilitating Career Groups (3 volumes) and the Career Counseling Casebook (2 editions)); on teaching multicultural counseling classes (Experiential Activities for Teaching Multicultural Counseling Competence, 2010), on teaching classes on counseling sexual minorities (Casebook for Counseling Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Persons and Their Families, 2012), and on teaching social justice and advocacy competence in counseling (Social Justice and Advocacy in Counseling: Experiential Activities for Teaching, 2020). (See “Books” below.)

Dr. Pope attended the University of Missouri – Columbia (A.B., political science and sociology, 1973; M.Ed., counseling and personnel services, 1974) and the University of San Francisco (Ed.D., counseling and educational psychology, 1989). He was elected student body vice-president at the University of Missouri – Columbia in 1971 and president of the graduate student council at the University of San Francisco in 1986.

In 2018, the University of Missouri System presented him with The Thomas Jefferson Award, the highest award that any faculty member may receive. Only one such award is given annually and faculty are nominated from all four campuses of that university system. In 2015 he was named a Curators’ Distinguished Professor, only the 2nd such professorship awarded to a College of Education faculty member at the University of Missouri – St. Louis since the founding of that campus in 1953. Later, upon his retirement in 2018, he was named a Curators’ Distinguished Professor Emeritus.

He has been the recipient of a number of major awards in the mental health professions including the human rights awards from the American Counseling Association and the state professional counseling associations of both California and Missouri, and culminating with receiving the Eminent Career Award of the National Career Development Association in 2008, the highest award in career counseling and development in the US.

Mark Pope Net Worth

Mark Pope is one of the richest Career Counselor from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Mark Pope 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Pope was raised in Fisk, Missouri, a small town of less than 500 people in rural and agricultural southeast Missouri, in a family of teachers and preachers. He founded the student council at Fisk-Rombauer High School and was elected as its first president in 1968. He was valedictorian of his graduating class and elected state vice-president of the Beta Clubs of Missouri; however, he was also quite well thought of by his classmates and was voted the “most talented” and “most likely to succeed” as well as class vice-president in his senior year. Between his junior and senior years in high school, he was selected to attend the National Science Foundation-funded Summer Institute in Mathematics and Science at the University of Kansas.

In 2004, Dr. Pope was selected for the OUT 100 as one of the major contributors to lesbian and gay culture in the US in that year He received this recognition for being elected as the first openly gay person to serve as president of a major mental health professional association exactly 30 years after the removal of “homosexuality” from the list of psychiatric disorders in the US (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, published by the American Psychiatric Association), repudiating once and for all the illness model used to limit the rights of gay, lesbian, and bisexual individuals in the US and around the world.

Pope was awarded the NOGLSTP LGBTQ+ Educator of the Year in 2012.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Who is Mark Pope Dating?

According to our records, Mark Pope married to Lee Anne. As of December 1, 2023, Mark Pope’s is not dating anyone.

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Facts & Trivia

Mark Ranked on the list of most popular Career Counselor. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Mark Pope celebrates birthday on April 23 of every year.

What is Mark Pope salary?

Utah Valley University will pay head basketball coach Mark Pope a base salary of $1.275 million over the course of his new six-year contract.

Is Mark the pope LDS?

Pope is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Where did Mark Pope go to college?

College

How long did Mark Pope play in the NBA?

A 6-foot-10 post player, Pope helped Kentucky claim the 1996 NCAA National Championship and enjoyed a nine-year professional career that included seven seasons in the NBA and two in Turkey. Pope was drafted in the second round of the 1996 NBA Draft by the Indiana Pacers.

How much does BYU head football coach make?

BYU finished No. 13 in the final College Football Playoff rankings this season. BYU is gearing up to begin life as a Power Five program in 2023 when they join the Big 12 Conference. Head coaches in that league make anywhere from $2.2 million (Lance Leipold, Kansas) to $4.37 million (Mike Gundy, Oklahoma State).