Ron Cervero, professor and department head of adult education, was one of three University of Georgia researchers to receive the 2001 Imogene Okes Award for outstanding research from the American Association of Adult and Continuing Education (AAACE).

Cervero received the award along with Andy Herod, associate professor of geography, and Ben Salt, who earned his Ph.D. from UGA in adult education in 1999, for their article "Worker's Education and Neoliberal Globalization: An Adequate Response to Transnational Corporations." which appeared in the November 2000 issue of Adult Education Quarterly.

The collaboration began with Salt's dissertation, which was the basis for the resulting article. Salt is now an associate evaluator at Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory in Portland, OR., where he assesses programs from kindergarten through college in connection with school re-engineering.

AAACE represents members from secondary and post-secondary education, business and labor, military and government and from community-based organizations dedicated to enhancing the field of adult learning. AAACE publishes two of the nation's leading periodicals in education and training: Adult Learning magazine and the scholarly journal Adult Education Quarterly.

Cervero, who earned his Ph.D. in adult education at the University of Chicago, has published extensively in adult education, with particular emphasis in the areas of continuing education for the professions and the politics of adult education. Of his six books, three have won national awards including the 1989 Cyril O. Houle Award for Literature in Adult Education. Cervero joined the UGA faculty in 1986.

Herod, who received his Ph.D. in geography from Rutgers University has published widely on the topics of globalization and its impacts upon workers and labor unions. He joined the UGA faculty in 1992.

Wednesday, January 16, 2002
Writer: Michael Childs, 706/542-5889, mchilds@coe.uga.edu
Contact: Ron Cervero, 706/542-2221, rcervero@coe.uga.edu