(Please forward inquiries to Kristine Young, kkristin@k-state.edu, 532-5990)
INTERNATIONAL EDUCATOR AWARD
University Award for
Advancing the International Mission
of Kansas State University
Purpose: This award was established by the Provost to recognize an individual who has contributed to advancing international education at Kansas State University.
Award: One person is recognized each fall during International Education Week. The recipient receives a plaque and a $1,000 check. Go to previous awardees.
Criteria: Faculty, staff, administrators, or other members of the K-State community may be honored for major contributions and sustained commitment to advancing international education at K-State. Major contributions may include, but are not limited to, one or more of the following criteria:
- Developing innovative programs to advance international education within a unit or the university;
- Recruiting students, faculty, and staff from outside the United States;
- Mentoring international students, faculty, and staff;
- Developing and implementing learning activities that prepare U.S. students for a diverse and global society;
- Integrating international education into the curriculum;
- Providing opportunities for professional development and international experiences for faculty and staff;
- Developing activities that support partnerships with international institutions, visiting scholars, and guest lecturers from universities abroad;
- Contributing to scholarship in an international context
Nomination / Application Process: Anyone may nominate a person to be recognized. The nomination must include information explaining how the nominee has advanced international education at K-State. The nomination should be forwarded to Office of International Programs, Attention: Jodi Caldwell, 304 Fairchild Hall, Manhattan, KS, 66506.
Contents of Nomination Packet: The nomination packet should include
- A curriculum vitae of the nominee
- Letter of nomination describing in detail why the nominee is deserving of the award (three pages maximum)
- A letter of support from two individuals with the university who can attest to the nominee's contributions (two letters total)
Deadlines:Nomination letters and letters of support should be sent to the Office of International Programs by October 23, 2009.
Reception: The recipient will be awarded at a special reception held at the Hale Library Hemisphere Room on Friday, November 20, 2009, at 3:00pm.
Selection Committee: The selection committee will consist of past International Educator awardees, and staffed by Rebecca Manes, Office of International Programs.
For more information: Contact Kristine Young at the Office of International Programs, 532-5990, or e-mail kkristin@k-state.edu.
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Award Recipients 2003 - 2008
2008 Winners
Dr. Ted Cable
B.S., Biology (with honors), University of Illinois-Chicago (1974)
Teaching Certificate, Secondary Science Education, Purdue University (1976)
M.S., Wildlife Ecology, Purdue University (1980)
Ph.D., Forest Recreation Management, Purdue University (1984)
Cable is the Assistant Department Head for the Department of Horticulture, Forestry and Recreation Resources, and is a professor of interpretation and natural resource conservation in the Park Management and Conservation Program at Kansas State University. He has experience working on short term projects or study tours in Scotland, Canada, Australia, Haiti, Colombia, Costa Rica, and the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico. Cable also has considerable professional experience in Paraguay and West Africa. His work in these places has resulted in many presentations, papers, and a book titled, "Commitments of the Heart- Odysseys in West African Conservation." Recently in 2004 Cable served as an honorary visiting professor at Blaise Pascal University in Clermont-Ferrand, France.
Cable has been directly involved in bringing international students and faculty to K-State as well as leading study abroad groups and helping K-State students to study and engage in community service abroad. He has received multiple awards for his teaching, research, advising, and professional service.
View Dr. Cable's complete resume
News release by K-State Media Relations on Dr. Cable and 2008 award
K-State Department of Horticulture, Forestry and Recreation Resources
2008 Winner
Mrs. Elfrieda Nafziger
B.A., General, University of Manitoba, 1961 (concentration in history, geography, and German)
Certificate in Education, University of Manitoba, 1966
M.A., History, Kansas State University, 1968 (concentration in South Asian history and Russian history; minor in political science)
Born in Kansas to Ukrainian emigres, Nafziger spent most of her formative years growing up in various provinces of Canada. She taught high school in Selkirk, Manitoba (1961-62), Gindiri, Nigeria (1963-65), and Manhattan, Kansas (1973-96). From 1996 to 1998, she taught English as a second language to graduate students at the University of Helsinki, Finland, preparing them to work in the European Union and other international agencies. When she returned to Manhattan, Kansas in 1998, she was hired by the Office of International Programs (OIP) as their Group Study Abroad Coordinator. At OIP, Nafziger was also responsible for international alumni relations, service learning, and internships. She also served as the liaison with K-State Friends of International Programs, an organization she helped create and foster. She organized receptions for K-State alumni in Japan (Tokyo and Osaka), Korea (Seoul), China (Shanghai) and Turkey (Istanbul). Nafziger helped establish a service learning program at teh Universidad Popular Autonoma del Estado de Puebla in Mexico.
She helped organize the programs for K-State students to teach English overseas in China and Turkey. At the time of her unexpected passing in 2007, she was working on new service learning programs in Botswana, South African, and Turkey, as well as planning to explore new opportunities for service in learning in India. Her contributions to international learning and service continue via a memorial fund established in her name for scholarships for K-State students' study abroad and service learning opportunities, as well as for the Mennonite Central Committee's Teachers Abroad Program and educational, relief, service, peace or development programs in Africa and Asia.
News release by K-State Media Relations on Mrs. Nafziger and 2008 award
Dr. Walter Kolonosky , 2007 Winner
B.A. Russian, Lycoming College, 1963
M.A. Russian Language and Literature, Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1965
Ph.D., (with honors) Russian Language and Literature, Univ. of Kansas, 1972
Kolonosky is professor of Russian in the Department of Modern Languages. In the 1980s he established Kansas State University’s first Office of Study Abroad, making low-cost academic exchanges in Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin America available to K-State students. In addition to enhancing K-State’s international reach, Kolonosky has been instrumental in providing linguistic and cultural expertise, often acting as interpreter, translator, as well as adviser to student-athlete recruiters, facilitating communication with Russian government organizations, as well as with professors and students from the former Soviet Union and the current Russian Republic.
An expert on Soviet-era Russian literature, Kolonosky has published numerous articles and reviews in journals such as World Literature Today (formerly Books Abroad), The Slavic and East European Journal, Modern Fiction Studies, Canadian-American Slavic Studies and The Russian Literary Tri-Quarterly. His literary criticism about A.D. Sinyavsky has appeared in journals in both Moscow and St. Petersburg. His book, Literary Insinuations: Sorting Out A.D. Sinyavsky’s Irreverence, explores the playful dimensions of satire.
View Dr. Kolonosky's complete vita
For further information:
-News
release by K-State Media Relations on Dr. Kolonosky and 2007 award
-K-State Department of Modern Languages
Dr. William Richter, 2006 Winner
B.A. (Honors, Cum Laude), Political Science and History, Willamette
University, 1961
M.A., Political Science, University of Chicago, 1963
Ph.D., Political Science, University of Chicago, 1968
Richter is a professor of Political Science at Kansas State University. He began at Kansas State University 1966, and his contributions include serving as head of the political science department, director of the KSU South Asia Center, chairman of K-State's Landon Lecture Series and associate provost for international programs.
Richter has written numerous journal articles, professional papers, and written book chapters on many international topics. He also co-edited Combating Corruption/Encouraging Ethics and The Landon Lectures: Perspectives from the First Twenty Years.
View Dr. Richter's complete vita
For further information:
-News
release by K-State Media Relations on Dr. Richter and 2006 award
-K-State Department of Political Science
Dr. Bradley Shaw, 2005 Winner
B.A. (cum laude), Lewis and Clark College, 1968
M.A., Northwestern University, 1969
Ph.D., Romance Languages, The University of New Mexico, 1974
Shaw is an associate professor of Spanish and Director of International and Area Studies at Kansas State University. He served as head of K-State's department of modern languages, was a member of the K-State Latin American studies committee, and he has been director of the secondary major in Latin American studies at K-State. He also has served as director of the secondary major in international studies and in international and area studies for the College of Arts and Sciences since 1995.
Shaw has written many articles, supplements and reviews on topics including Latin American fiction, literary history and theory, translation and lexicography, and Hispanic bibliography. He was also co-editor of Critical Perspectives on Garbriel García Márquez, co-author of Luis Romero and co-compiler of Hispanic Writers in French Journals: An Annotated Bibliography.
For further information:
-News
release by K-State Media Relations on Dr. Shaw and 2005 award
-K-State Department of Modern Languages
Dr. Michael Suleiman, 2004 Winner
B.A., Bradley University, 1960
M.S., University of Wisconsin, 1962
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1965
Suleiman is University Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Kansas State University. Some of his administrative responsibilities have included Department Head, Dean's Advisory Committee, African Area Studies Center Planning Committee, Dean's Evaluation Committee, Graduate Program Self-Study Review Group and Secretary-Treasurer, University Distinguished Professors Group.
Suleiman has authored numerous scholarly publications about comparative and international politics of the Middle East as well as American-Arab relations, and the Arab-American community, examples of which include U.S. Policy on Palestine from Wilson to Clinton and The Arabs in the Mind of America. He has also served as a member of Editorial Boards of five journals dealing with the Middle East: International Journal of Middle East Studies, Arab Studies Quarterly, Journal of Arab Affairs, The Maghreb Review, Arab Journal of International Studies, and Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs.
View Dr. Suleiman's complete vita
For more information:
-News
release by K-State Media Relations on Dr. Suleiman's 2003 Fulbright-Hayes
Fellowship
-K-State Department of Political Science
Dr. David Norman, 2003 Winner
B.Sc., NDA, Wye College, University of London, 1961
M.S., Oregon State University, 1963
Ph.D., Oregon State University, 1965
Norman is a professor of Agricultural Economics at Kansas State University. Beginning in 1965, Norman served as member of the Kansas State University team working at Ahmadu Bello University in northern Nigeria under Ford Foundation auspices, and later became a Kansas State University faculty member. Norman began teaching on campus in 1976. From 1982 - 1990, he served as the chief of party of the Agricultural Technology Improvement Project in Botswana, Africa. He has also served as adviser to the African Student Union at Kansas State University. In 1999 and 2000, he was nominated by the president of the Rockefeller Foundation for the World Food Prize, the highest individual honor for outstanding achievement in improving the world's food supply.
Norman has authored or co-authored more than 200 papers since 1964. Additionally, he has consulted on over 50 works written by others.
View Dr. Norman's complete vita
For more information:
-News
release by K-State Media Relations on Dr. Norman and 2003 award
-K-State Department of Agricultural Economics