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 and who are committed to academic innovation in the areas of equity, community engagement, and teaching and learning.
Nominations for the 2027 Cross Awards are currently being reviewed. Winners will be announced later this year.
What Recipients Receive
Recipients of the K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award will be recognized at the 2027 AAC&U Annual Meeting.
Recipients also receive
- complimentary registration for the 2027 AAC&U Annual Meeting;
- a one-year AAC&U individual membership; and
- a one-year subscription to Liberal Education magazine.
Questions?
For more information about the K. Patricia Cross Awards, please contact Alina Grant at agrant@aacu.org.
About K. Patricia Cross
The award honors the work of K. Patricia Cross, Professor Emerita of Higher Education at the University of California–Berkeley. Throughout her career, Dr. Cross helped the higher education community better understand our students, their characteristics, and their needs, and recognize what our responsibilities should be. Her groundbreaking scholarship paved the way for a legacy of work on age, socioeconomic class, gender, race, sexual orientation, and numerous other aspects of intersectional social identity.