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News release prepared by: Beth Bohn, 785-532-6415, bbohn@k-state.edu

Friday, Dec. 12, 2008

K-STATE AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS PROFESSOR RECOGNIZED AS ONE OF THE BEST UNIVERSITY TEACHERS IN THE FOOD AND AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES

MANHATTAN -- Michael Boland, a professor of agricultural economics at Kansas State University, is a 2008 regional winner of an Excellence in College and University Teaching in the Food and Agricultural Sciences Award.

The awards program is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges.

The award recognizes a select group of college and university teachers who excel at teaching, make a positive impact on student learning, and influence other teachers by example. The program also seeks to focus national attention on the teaching role as fundamental to the development of the scientific and professional expertise essential to the future growth and progress of the nation's food and agricultural system.

Two national winners of the honor were selected, while Boland was one of six regional winners. Fred Cholick, dean of K-State's College of Agriculture, said the university has now had nine winners of the prestigious award, second only to the University of Illinois.

"Michael Boland is a very deserving of this honor for his work in the classroom and for working to expand the global understanding of his students through experiential learning experiences," Cholick said. "Dr. Boland has taught or lectured in more than 30 countries across the world and has led five international agribusiness study tours in Central and South America and in Australia and New Zealand."

A K-State faculty member since 1996, Boland specializes in agribusiness management and teaches both graduate and undergraduate courses in agribusiness strategy and an international agribusiness course in conjunction with a study tour.

Boland has been recognized for his teaching nationally, by the university and by his college. His honors include serving as co-chair in 2003-04 of the National Food and Agribusiness Management Education Commission, which was created by the Department of Agriculture to conduct a national study on undergraduate and graduate agribusiness programs and recommend future curriculum areas.

He is now serving as chair of the International Agribusiness Task Force, which has been funded by the Department of Agriculture to analyze ways of integrating international competitiveness in undergraduate programs.

Boland was named K-State's 2005-2006 Coffman Chair for University Distinguished Teaching Scholars; received the David J. Mugler Outstanding Teaching Award from the K-State College of Agriculture in 2003; and was the recipient of a K-State Presidential Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching in 2001.

At K-State, Boland also serves as associate director of the Arthur Capper Cooperative Center and has co-authored more than 20 case studies on cooperatives.

Boland earned a bachelor's in business administration from the University of St. Thomas, where he graduated cum laude. He earned a master's in agricultural education from the University of Minnesota at St. Paul, and a master's and a doctorate in agricultural economics from Purdue University.