The K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award

The K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award recognizes graduate students who show exemplary promise as future leaders of higher education; who demonstrate a commitment to developing academic and civic responsibility in themselves and others; and whose work reflects a strong emphasis on teaching and learning.

The awards are sponsored by K. Patricia Cross, David Gardner Professor of Higher Education, Emerita, at the University of California, Berkeley.  From 1996 through 2005, the K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Awards were administered by the American Association for Higher Education, where Professor Cross had served as Chair of AAHE’s Board of Directors.

AAC&U is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2008 K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Awards:

Thomas Eatmon, Jr., Public Policy, Southern University
Andrew Farke, Vertebrate Anatomy / Paleontology, Stony Brook University
Kyle Gobrogge, Neuroscience, Florida State University
Frances Gratacos, Molecular Biology, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey/Rutgers
Jennifer Lavy, Theatre History and Criticism, University of Washington
Christine Reiser, Anthropology, Brown University
Paul Rogers, Education, University of California, Santa Barbara
Cindy Spurlock, Communication Studies, University of North Carolina
Kimberly Van Orman, Philosophy, University at Albany, SUNY
Dumaine Williams, Pharmacology, Stony Brook University

Recipients of the 2008 K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award were honored at the Opening Plenary of AAC&U's 2008 Annual Meeting.  These individuals were chosen from a pool of more than 125 nominations and, through a rigorous application process, demonstrated their leadership ability or potential for exercising leadership in teaching and learning, and a strong commitment to academic and civic responsibility.

Recipients of the 2007 K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award:

Kasey Baker, English, University of Tennessee
Bethany Bowling, Interdisciplinary Studies - Biology Education, University of Cincinnati
Amy Cass, Sociology, University of Delaware
Stephanie Milling-Robbins, Dance and Women's Studies, Texas Woman's University
Evelyn Perry, Sociology, Indiana University
Margaret Post, Social Policy, Brandeis University
Tarsem Purewal, Computer Science, University of Georgia
Sarah Wise, Evolutionary Developmental Biology, University of Colorado at Boulder

Recipients of the 2006 K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award:

Derek Cabrera, Education, Cornell University
Michael Coyle, Justice Studies, Arizona State University
Emily Fairchild, Sociology, Indiana University
Molly Beth Kerby, Educational Administration, Educational Leadership, and   Organizational Development, University of Louisville
Diane Nutbrown, Inorganic Chemistry, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Regina Praetorius, Human Resource Education, Louisiana State University
Victor Raymond, Sociology, Iowa State University
Joan Shin, Language, Literacy, and Culture, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Ian Stewart, Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley


About K. Patricia Cross
K. Patricia Cross is Professor of Higher Education Emerita of the University of California at Berkeley, as well as an author of seven books on classroom teaching, learning, and assessment. Her distinguished career in higher education began as Assistant Dean of Women at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, then continued as Dean of Students at Cornell. She served as Distinguished Research Scientist at the Educational Testing Service; Professor and Chair of the Department of Administration, Planning, and Social Policy at the Harvard Graduate School of Education; and then as David Pierpont Gardner Professor of Education at the University of California, Berkeley.

Patricia Cross is a member of the Board of Trustees of The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, and was twice chair of the Board of the American Association for Higher Education. She is a member of the National Academy of Education, and serves on the Board of Directors for the Berkeley Public Library and Elderhostel, Inc.

For more information, contact Suzanne Hyers at 202.387.3760 or hyers@aacu.org.