Hope Cotner

Vice President for Community College Initiatives
CORD
601 Lake Air Drive
Waco, TX 76710
Phone: 254-741-8309
Fax: 254-772-8972
Email: hcotner@cord.org



Hope Cotner is Vice President of Community College Initiatives at CORD.  She manages faculty development projects such as the Texas Collaborative for Teaching Excellence and the North Carolina Network for Excellence in Teaching as well as the AT&T Professional Development Academy for Community College Faculty.  She also directs curriculum and professional development efforts for college systems in several states.

 

Hope joined CORD in 1991 and has led a wide variety of initiatives at both the secondary and postsecondary levels.  She managed CORD’s communications department for eight years, including directing marketing efforts for NCATC until 1998, and continues to lend her marketing and public relations expertise to the projects she serves in the community college arena.   

 

Hope is past chairman of the Women’s Resource Center Advisory Council at Texas State Technical College in Waco, Texas and has served on the advisory committee for the Texas State Leadership Consortium for Professional Development.  She is a member of the American Association for Community Colleges and Texas Association of College Technical Educators.  In her community, Hope is actively involved in the Junior League of Waco, Public Relations Society of America-Central Texas chapter, and the Waco Symphony Orchestra.