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FACDIS Awards
2004 Innovator Award, Southern Growth Policies Board
Recipient of an award given by the Southern Growth Policies Board, a regional public policy think tank, formed by the region's governors, and serving thirteen Southern states and Puerto Rico. The award recognized one innovative program responding to globalization from each state.
2000 Hesburgh Certificate Winner
Recipient of Certificate of Excellence, Theodore M. Hesburgh Award for Faculty Development to Enhance Undergraduate Teaching and Learning sponsored by TIAA-CREF
Cyrus R. Vance Award for International Education in West Virginia
In November 2001, FACDIS was awarded the first-ever Cyrus R. Vance Award for International Education, bestowed by the West Virginia Department of Education and the Arts.
The award, which carries a stipend of $5,000, is named in honor of West Virginia native, Cyrus Vance, former Secretary of State. The announcement of this first award coincided with International Education week in 2001.
G. Theodore Mitau Award
Recipient of the 1987 American Association of State Colleges' and Universities' G. Theodore Mitau Award for Innovation and Change in Higher Education