Gail S. Scott

Gail Scott, Ph.D. received her undergraduate and graduate education at the University of Florida and her Doctor of Education degree in Psychological Foundations of Education has cognate areas of psychometrics and counseling psychology.

Dr. Scott also earned a Master of Dance degree from the Chicago Ballet Company and the University of Chicago. Dr. Scott has received several university, state, international, and national teaching awards in her career to include the United States Burlington Northern Foundation Faculty Achievement Award and the Sears Foundation Award for Teaching Excellence. She was also awarded the American Red Cross International Humanitarian Service Medal and the ten-year Shriver-Kennedy Meritorious Community Service Award by Eunice Shriver for work with the International Special Olympics. Dr. Scott was also awarded The University of Florida Alumni Achievement Award for Global Humanitarian Service.

Prior to joining the Kennesaw State University (KSU) faculty in spring 2010, she held multiple administrative positions including psychology department chair, director of counseling, testing, and student health services, the Associate Director of the Tri-State Graduate Degree Development Council, assistant academic dean, and research and grant assistant to the president. Dr. Scott’s academic and administrative history includes a Post Doctorate from The University of Florida where she served as assistant to the provost for BOR curriculum development and research.

Additionally, Dr. Scott was a Georgia State visiting professor in the Department of Psychology where she taught undergraduate and graduate courses. Dr. Scott’s educational experiences as a NIH graduate student representative for the United States include attending an international developmental seminar in genetic epistemology taught by Jean Piaget in his laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland. Dr. Scott also co-taught a counseling and psychotherapy graduate course with Erik Erikson at Syracuse University.

Dr. Scott is a member of the American Psychological Association and Southeastern Psychological Association. Dr. Scott is KSU faculty advisor for the student organization of the American Association of University Women and Psi Chi Psychology honorary. In addition, since 2011, Dr. Scott, with psychology colleagues, accompanies KSU Education Aboard students to Peru and conducts research and teaches at the Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola in Lima, Peru.

Dr. Scott also traveled to Japan with KSU Faculty Learning Community in 2014 and will travel to Morocco in 2018. With her students, Dr. Scott is involved in transcultural diversity quantitative research and global humanitarianism for women and is a patron for the Servers Shelter for Women and Girls in Calcutta, India and the Candelaria Center for Children and Women’s Leadership in Lima, Peru.

In fall 2018, Dr. Scott will teach and conduct diversity and humanitarian research in the KSU First-Year Learning Community Global Girl Talk courses centering on Leadership Programs for the Women of Morocco.