Coordinator of Graduate Programs
Agricultural and Extension Education
Awards and
Recognition
Recognition
of Teaching
Recognition
of Scholarship
Recognized
by the North Carolina
Association of Career and Technical
Education as the Outstanding Career and Technical Education
Professional in
2008.
Inducted
into the North CarolinaStateUniversityAcademy
of Outstanding Teachers in 2005.
Selected
by the University of Illinois as an “exemplary teacher” Twelve
professors
from across the US
were selected to be involved in a yearlong USDA sponsored study on
teaching
excellence during 2004-05. Each agriculture college in American could
nominate
one professor and 12 were selected from among those nominated.
An
on-line distance education program I conceived and implemented, the
Licensure in Education for Agricultural Professionals (LEAP) program,
received
an Honorable Mention in the American Distance Education Consortium
competition
in 2004 for the Excellence in Distance Education Award. This honor
indicates
the program was one of the top five distance education programs in America
for 2004.
Russell
Guin Outstanding Agricultural Educator Award—American
Association for Agricultural Education, 2003 (one person a year
receives this
award. This award is to recognize the top individual in the profession)
Distinguished
Teaching Award — American Association for Agricultural
Education, Southern Region, 1998.
Ensminger-Interstate
Distinguished Teacher Award — National Association
of Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture (NACTA) — 1996 (one person a
year
receives this award).
Fellow
— American Association for Agricultural Education — 1992 (two
people are selected annually).
H.
M. "Hub" Cotton Distinguished Faculty Award — LouisianaStateUniversity
—1989 (One professor a year receives
this award.)
Outstanding
Teaching Award — NACTA — Southern Region —1988
Teaching
Fellow — NACTA — 1988.
Outstanding
Teaching Award — Gamma Sigma Delta — College
of Agriculture — LouisianaStateUniversity
— 1987.
NACTA
"Teaching Award of Merit" for LouisianaStateUniversity
— 1986.
Agricultural
Student Association — Outstanding Professor in the College of Agriculture
— LouisianaStateUniversity
— 1985—1986.
"Excellence
in Teaching" Award — School of Humanities, Social
Studies, and Education — PurdueUniversity
— 1979.
Outstanding
Secondary Education Teaching Award — Kappa Delta Pi (student
education honorary) — PurdueUniversity
— 1979.
Outstanding
Graduate Associate Teaching Award — The OhioStateUniversity
—1975.(Five teaching associates a year are selected for this
award.)
Outstanding
Young Member Award — National Vocational Agriculture
Teachers Association (NVATA) — Ohio
— 1973.
Outstanding
Young Educator Award — Beverly/Waterford, Ohio Jaycees — 1973.
NVATA
Career Orientation Award — Region IV — 1972.
NVATA
Ideas Unlimited Award — Region IV — 1972.
An
essay on the future of Southern Agriculture submitted by graduate
student
Katie Murray to the Future of Southern Agriculture student essay
contest
(sponsored by Sygenta and the Farm Press in 2009) was the runner-up
essay.
Katie received a $4,000 cash prize for the essay. I was Katie’s faculty
advisor
for the essay.
A
research paper (Effects of an Introductory Agricultural Education
Course on the Agricultural Literacy and Perceptions of Agriculture of
Urban
Students) authored by a graduate student (Riedel, J) under the guidance
of Beth
Wilson, Jim Flowers and myself was the outstanding graduate student
paper
presented to the Southern Agricultural Education Research Conference in
2007.
A
research paper (Walking the Talk: Factors Related to the Motivation
of Teachers to Conduct the SAE Component of the High School
Agricultural
Education Program) authored by me and a colleague presented.at the
Southern
Agricultural Education Research Conference in 2006 was the runner-up
for the
Outstanding Research Paper
Was
one of two speakers selected to speak on the occasion of the
100th Anniversary Celebration of
the College of Agriculture
at the University
of Arkansas
(2005).
Was
selected to present the Distinguished Lecture at the annual meeting
of the American Association for Teacher Education in Agriculture in
2005.
Was
selected to present the Blue Ribbon Address to the North American
Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture in 2005.
A
paper/poster titled “Do Professors who Teach With Energy and Concern
Give Their Students More Motivation?” written by NCSU undergraduate
student,
Kristina Vester was selected as the outstanding paper at the 2005 NCSU
Undergraduate Teaching Symposium. I was one of two mentors who guided
her
research.
Invited
to represent the Western Hemisphere at a conference on the
Developments in and future of agricultural education in Asia, the
Pacific,
North America, Europe and the Netherlands:
Insights
from practice and research at WageningenUniversity in the Netherlands
in March of 2004. The
paper presented was titled. “From Sows, Cows and Plows to Cells, Gels
and
Dells: The Continuing Evolution of Agricultural Education in North America.
The
dissertation of my doctoral student, Marshall Stewart, was
recognized at the outstanding dissertation in America in the field of
career and
technical education by Omicron Tau Theta, a national honorary in Career
and
Technical Education. This recognition occurred in 2004.
A
paper “Emerging
Educational
and Agricultural Trends and Their Impact on the Secondary
Agricultural Education Program”
presented to the American Vocational Education Research Association in
2003 by Marshall Stewart, one of my doctoral students, was selected as
the
outstanding young scholar presentation.
Editor,
The Agricultural Education Magazine, 1998-2000.
Outstanding
Research Paper, Runner-up — 1996 — Eastern Agricultural
Education Research Conference. — “The Impact of Block Scheduling on
Instruction, FFA and SAE in Agricultural Education".
Distinguished
Service Award —1995 — American Vocational Education
Research Association — (This award is for overall contributions to the
field of
vocational education research)
Distinguished
Service Award —1994—Southern Region of the American
Association for Agricultural Education — (This award is for overall
contributions to the field of agricultural education)
Distinguished
Researcher Award — 1993 — Southern Region of the American
Association for Agricultural Education — (This award is for sustained
research
contributions to the field of agricultural education.)
Outstanding
Research Paper — 1993 — Southern Agricultural Education
Research Conference. — "Who's in Charge Here? An Analysis of the
Leadership in Agricultural Education Provided by the United States
Department
of Agriculture".
External
Examiner, University
of Malaysia,
1992—1993,
1997-98.
Outstanding
Research Paper — 1989 — Southern Agricultural Education
Research Conference —"How Firm the Foundation? A Look at the Knowledge
Base in Agricultural Education Research".
Outstanding
Journal Article —1987 — Journal of Vocational and
Technical Education, Volume 4 — “The Quadrumvirate in Vocational
Education"
Chairman
— Editing—Managing Board, The Journal of the American
Association of Teacher Educators in Agriculture, 1987.
Member,
Editorial Board, Southern Journal of Occupational Education,
1986‑1991.
Cyril
Asiabaka, Ph.D. advisee, had his dissertation selected as one of
the top five in the nation in vocational education by the American
Vocational
Education Research Association, 1984.
My
dissertation was selected by the American Vocational Education
Research Association as one of the top five dissertations in vocational
education in 1976. Over 40 dissertations were submitted.
