Professor to be recognized for work in democratic education

WASHINGTON, D.C.-- Dr. Patricia Kubow, an assistant professor of educational foundations and inquiry at Bowling Green State University, will be recognized on Jan. 10 in Washington, D.C., for her efforts toward using education to promote democracy in Eastern Europe.

Kubow will receive the Outstanding Citizen Achievement Award from the Bureau for Europe and Eurasia of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The award will be presented by Dr. Kent Hill, assistant administrator for Europe and Eurasia, who oversees USAID programs in 29 countries spanning the Balkans to Central Asia, including all the former Soviet Union countries.

The ceremony will be held at 3:30 p.m. Friday (Jan. 10) in the USAID Point 4 Conference Room, Ronald Reagan Building, Washington, D.C.

The Outstanding Citizen Achievement Award is sponsored by USAID to recognize U.S. citizens who are making an exceptional contribution to international development through their work and volunteerism. USAID is a government agency that administers economic and humanitarian assistance worldwide.

The honor will be Kubow’s second from Washington in the past three months. She was chosen in October by President Bush for recognition at the White House for her advocacy of democratic education in countries in which democracy is a new concept. Kubow was unable to attend the October ceremony because she was in Africa working on another democratic education project in South Africa and Kenya.

(Posted January 7, 2003)