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Media Contact: Linda Holtz
561-297-0159, lholtz@fau.edu
FAU EMINENT SCHOLAR RECEIVES NATIONAL AWARD
Boca Raton, FL (Jan. 15, 2003) - Dr. Larry Decker, Florida Atlantic University's Charles Stewart Mott Professor and Eminent Scholar in Community Education, and Virginia Decker are the 2002 joint recipients of the National Community Education Association's (NCEA) Distinguished Service Award. The Deckers, key figures in the field of community education, are the first married couple in the association's 37-year history to receive this highest honor. As members of the NCEA Board of Directors, the Deckers, over the past four decades, have produced important research and initiated federal legislation on behalf of community education.
Pioneers in community education, the Deckers have written extensively on a movement and educational philosophy that advocates home-school partnerships and the formation of community school programs.
Dr. Decker, who was a C.S. Mott doctoral intern at Michigan State University, served as director of community education in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. He later operated the Mid-Atlantic Center for Community Education at the University of Virginia and produced the bulk of their many publications.
A Mott Professor at FAU since 1995, the only endowed community education chair in North America, Dr. Decker has, with his wife, authored a new book titled Home, School, and Community Partnerships. The book, published by Scarecrow Education, will be available in January 2003 and is designed to help educators bridge the gap between the American public and its public schools. Together they are the managing editors of the National Community Education Publication Series, a series co-sponsored by FAU and NCEA.
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