Colorado State University – Pueblo welcomes higher education author next week

Pueblo- A top-selling author on higher education issues will visit Colorado State University – Pueblo next week and provide insights into teaching and learning at a two-day seminar on what makes the best college educators.

Dr. Kenneth R. Bain, award winning author of What the Best College Teachers Do, will visit with select groups of faculty on September 21 and 22 to discuss teaching development. Bain also will conduct a presentation open to faculty at CSU-Pueblo and Pueblo Community College at
1 p.m. on Thursday, September 21 in the Occhiato University Center West Ballroom. A campus-wide reception will follow at 3:30 p.m. in the OUC Aspen Leaf.

Bain’s book won the 2004 Virginia and Warren Stone Prize for Outstanding Book on Education and Society and has been one of the top selling books on higher education. He has been recognized throughout the United States and internationally for his insights into teaching and learning and for his 15-year study of what the best educators do. He has presented workshops and lectures at nearly 200 universities, which has taken him to Africa, Asia, Australia, Canada, Europe, and Mexico. In recent years, his book has been adopted by universities and colleges around the world and has been translated into six languages.

In his 30+ year college teaching experience, he has won four major teaching awards, including a nomination for the Minnie Piper Foundation Award for outstanding college teacher in Texas in 1980 and 1981, and Honors Professor of the Year Awards in 1985 and 1986. A 1990 national publication named him one of the best teachers in the United States. Bain also has received awards from the Harry S Truman Library, Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, the Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the International Studies Association. He is currently completing his third book on U.S. relations with the Middle East (The Last Journey Home: Franklin Roosevelt and the Middle East).

Bain serves as Vice Provost for Instruction, Director of the Teaching and Learning Resource Center, and Professor of History at Montclair State University in New Jersey. He earned a B.A. in history and philosophy from Baylor University, an M.A. in history from the University of North Texas, and a Ph.D. in history from the University of Texas at Austin.



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