ADEC honors two with Irving Award
Alan Moeller, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and Kirvin Knox, Colorado State University, receive award for contributions to ADEC
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 6, 2000
American Distance Education Consortium
(402) 472-7000
Washington, D.C. - The American Distance Education Consortium has given its top annual awards to administrators from the University of Nebraska and Colorado State University.
ADEC
honored Alan Moeller, of UNL, and Kirvin Knox, of CSU, with its Irving
Award during its annual meeting here Sunday (March 5).
Moeller is assistant vice chancellor of NU's Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources and serves ADEC's board of directors as its assistant treasurer, while Knox is associate provost for agriculture and public service at CSU and ADEC treasurer and former board member.
Thomas
Fretz, chair of the ADEC board of directors and dean of agriculture
at the University of Maryland, said both Moeller and Knox have played
key roles in the fiscal management of ADEC, a coalition of 58 universities
and other organizations headquartered at NU.
Janet Poley, president of ADEC, added, "The contributions they made to ADEC will allow us to move forward with some of our most important projects. As we develop the ADEC Digital Broadcast Satellite Channel and our capacity to provide distance education around the globe, we can thank Knox and Moeller for assuring that our progress is on a sound financial base."
Moeller, who holds degrees in agricultural economics from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, has been with IANR since 1977. He is a native of Wisner, Nebraska.
Knox, who has degrees from California State University-Fresno, Colorado State and the University of California-Davis, has been dean of CSU's college of Agricultural Sciences since 1992.
The Irving Award is named for Irvin Omtvedt, vice chancellor of IANR and the first chairman of the ADEC board of directors.
ADEC offers degree programs, academic courses, advanced placement courses for high schools, nonformal education courses and certificates using a variety of technologies. Member institutions offer their programs through the consortium, and a number of ADEC offerings are multi-institutional, designed and taught by more than one university.
The ADEC catalog and detailed information about all of ADEC's programs can be found on the Web at http://www.adec.edu.
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