Associate Director of Community Standards
- Email: heather.cohen@northwestern.edu
- Phone: 847-467-5869
Heather Cohen serves as the Associate Director in the Office of Community Standards at Northwestern. Heather began working in Northwestern’s Office of Community Standards in 2019.
In her roles within Community Standards, Heather has led or developed training on issues such as sanctioning, student's psychological responses to being involved in conduct cases, trauma-aware processes, and bias management. Each year she works with a student advisory board, campus partners, and senior leadership to coordinate the annual revisions to the Student Handbook. She additionally serves as a team member on Northwestern’s Mediation, Conflict Resolution, and Restorative Practices (MCR) Initiative through a partnership with the Offices of the Ombudsperson and Community Enrichment. Heather frequently presents on topics such as sanctioning and using assessment to evaluate equity within the process, including at ASCA Annual Meetings and ASCA’s Gehring Academy.
Heather has worked in Higher Education since 2006, in roles encompassing Title IX, Orientation, Fraternity and Sorority Life, Res Life, and faculty affairs. Heather earned a BA in Political Science from Ohio University, her M.Ed from North Carolina State University, and a certificate in Restorative Justice from University of San Diego.
In her free time, she enjoys watching 桃色视频Lacrosse games and Broadway shows, attending her children's musicals, and streaming Gossip Girl and its derivatives.