{"id":20893,"date":"2017-08-17T12:03:57","date_gmt":"2017-08-17T16:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/college.unc.edu\/?p=20893"},"modified":"2024-07-02T16:36:39","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T16:36:39","slug":"jennifer-cooper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/?p=20893","title":{"rendered":"Meet a new Tar Heel: Jennifer Cooper"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Meet a new Tar Heel | Jennifer Cooper, Class of 2019\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/N6l6WsE2REk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Incoming junior Jennifer Cooper plans to major in psychology and history, but it\u2019s her background that makes her unique among her peers.<\/p>\n<p>Cooper, 49, is the mother of nine children. They range in age from 26 to 9.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had planned on having a career in life. I had never planned on being a stay-at-home mother,\u201d Cooper said. \u201cWhen my youngest son went to school and he was a little bit older, I thought, \u2018you know, it\u2019s time for me to decide what I want to do again.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cooper went back to school two years ago and received her associate\u2019s degree from Central Carolina Community College in May.<\/p>\n<p>Starting next week, Cooper will commute to Chapel Hill from her home in Sanford, North Carolina, about an hour\u2019s drive. She will take classes in the morning and be home in time to pick her children up from school.<\/p>\n<p>She hopes to work in forensic psychology or teach psychology when she graduates.<\/p>\n<p>Cooper\u2019s daughter, Lydia, will be starting at Carolina as a junior this fall as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll of my siblings, and myself included, we\u2019re all just really proud,\u201d Lydia Cooper said. \u201cI\u2019ve appreciated so much of her giving up her time to mother us, and to rear us, and I think it\u2019s, you know, her time. We all support her, and we think it\u2019s great.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Video by Rob Holliday, University Communications<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Incoming junior Jennifer Cooper plans to major in psychology and history, but it\u2019s her background that makes her unique among her peers. Cooper, 49, is the mother of nine children. 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