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.
Nine Graduate Students Honored with 2024 K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award
AAC&U announced the 2024 recipients of the annual K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award.
Nomination Process
All doctoral-seeking graduate students who are planning a career in higher education are eligible for nomination, regardless of academic discipline. Graduate students in fields where the master’s degree is the terminal degree (such as the MFA in art) are also eligible.
Nominations by a faculty member or administrator are required.
Nominations undergo a robust and multi-phase review process engaging past Cross Awards winners and AAC&U staff. Winners are selected based upon their demonstrated commitments to equity, innovations in teaching and learning, and community engagement as integrated components of their graduate work.
Award
Each year's award recipients are honored and introduced to the AAC&U community at the AAC&U Annual Meeting in January.
The K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award provides financial support for graduate students to attend the AAC&U Annual Meeting. The award includes travel, lodging, meeting registration, and a one-year subscription to Liberal Education magazine.
For more information, contact Kathryn Enke at 202-888-4647 or [email protected].
Recipients of the 2024 K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Awards
Oumarou Abdoulaye Balarabe
Higher Education and Student Affairs, Ohio University
Tabatha Cruz
Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development, University of Minnesota
Anisha Gupta
Preservation Studies, University of Delaware
Anuj Gupta
Rhetoric, Composition, and the Teaching of English, University of Arizona
Leah Harmon
Neuroscience, Yale University
Bethany Kaser
English, Duquesne University
Mayra Nuñez Martinez
School Organization and Education Policy, University of California, Davis
Guerdiana Thelomar
Community Psychology, University of Miami
Teresa Piedad Torres
Microbe Host Interactions, Vanderbilt University
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. In Memoriam: K. Patricia Cross