ADEC presents Excellence in College and University Distance Education Award
Cornell University Global Seminar Top Winner
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 5, 2001
American Distance Education Consortium
(402) 472-7000
Washington, D.C. - Cornell University was honored Monday (March 5) by the American Distance Education Consortium for its leadership of a distance-education effort by students and faculty worldwide to explore key environmental and food sustainability issues.
Cornell's Global Seminar: Environmental and Sustainable Food Systems receive ADEC's National Excellence in College and University Distance Education Award at the Council for Agricultural Researching, Extension and Teaching's annual meeting here. The award includes a $5,000 prize.
The Cornell program has an international problem-solving team working
to prepare future leaders and citizens. Using interactive technology
and case studies, the program transcends national boundaries, cultures
and backgrounds as it addresses such issues as population demographics,
energy/carbon, global warming, water quality and use, biodiversity and
food security.
Since 1997, more than 200 undergraduate and graduate students in eight collaborating universities have completed the program. The worldwide faculty includes 25 members.
Honorable mention awards went to:
-- The Great Plains Interactive Distance Education Alliance (IDEA), which has developed a complete master's degree program in family financial planning and is considering the development of as many as three new programs for the coming year.
Collaborating universities are North Dakota State University, South Dakota State University, University of Minnesota, University of Nebraska, Iowa State University, Kansas State University, the University of Missouri, Oklahoma State University and Texas Tech University.
-- Kansas State University's master of agribusiness program, the first such program in the United States. Eighty-two students from more than 25 states as well as several other countries are enrolled in the 2 ½ year program while they continue their careers at various agricultural corporations. The program remains self-sufficient with as few as 15 students entering each year; a student can complete the program for $16,000 to $19,000.ADEC, which comprises 58 universities and other organizations, is headquartered at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. It 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 several ADEC offerings are designed and taught by more than one university.
The ADEC catalog and detailed information about ADEC's programs can be found on the Web at http://www.adec.edu.
CONTACTS: Janet Poley, president, ADEC ...... Dan Moser, coordinator of IANR News and Publishing, (402) 472-3030.
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