English professor wins awards for contributions to education

Professor Julie Klein received the Ramamoorthy & Yeh Transdisciplinary Distinguished Achievement Award at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas, at the bi-annual meeting of The Academy of Transdisciplinary Learning and Advanced Studies (ATLAS).

The meeting focused on transdisciplinary, transnational, and transcultural approaches to global problems. The award is given in recognition of distinguished and meritorious achievements of transdisciplinary research and education.

That same week, the president of the Association for General and Liberal Studies (AGLS) announced that the AGLS Executive Council had selected Professor Klein to receive the Joseph Katz Award for Outstanding Leadership in General Education. The Award recognizes distinguished contributions to the practice and discourse of general and liberal education.

Past winners include Carol Geary Schneider, President of the American Association of Colleagues and Universities (AAC&U), and Jerry Gaff, Senior Scholar at AAC&U.