Distance Education awards presented at ADEC annual meeting
General News Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 6, 2000
American Distance Education Consortium
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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The American Distance Education Consortium has given its top annual awards to administrators from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln 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.
Janet Poley, president of ADEC, said, "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's 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 presented several other awards at the meeting:
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The University of Kentucky's distance-learning program received the Excellence in College and University Distance Education Award. Its program began about 10 years ago and includes such programs as the Gee-Whiz in Agriculture Series.
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Exemplary Service Awards went to Janet Means and Olivia Ernest, both with ADEC's headquarters office at UNL, and Doris Littrell and Linda Cupp, both of the University of Missouri-Columbia. Means, executive assistant for ADEC, has been with the organization since 1995. She manages communications with ADEC members and partners. Ernest, who handles the consortium's financial and contract oversight and reports, joined in 1994. Cupp and Littrell were honored for leading development of a national Intellectual Property for Distance Education conference last May.
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The ADEC Infrastructure Award went to Jeffrey M. Poley, ADEC technical adviser, UNL, and Gary Atkins, coordinator of instructional services, CSU. Both were praised by Kirvin Knox, vice provost for agriculture and university outreach at CSU and member of the ADEC Board of Directors, for being "behind-the-scenes but critical components of ADEC's success."
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The Barrier Buster Award went to Kevin Hayes, of Oklahoma State University, and Michael Burke, of Oregon State University. Burke, associate dean of the College of Agricultural Sciences, helped bring to fruition the ADEC National Award for Excellence in College and University Teaching. Hayes was instrumental in the development of telecommunications technology for distance education at OSU, where he was distance education coordinator until last June. He currently serves OSU as the Director of Agirultural Communications Services.
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The Outstanding Educational Program Award went to the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Virginia Tech. Wisconsin was cited for its Certificate of Excellence in Nonprofit Leadership and Management program, while Virginia Tech was named for its entomology course Insects and Human Society. Oregon State University received an honorable mention for its Master Gardener Botany Module.
ADEC, which comprises 58 universities and other organizations, 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.