OUTSTANDING COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY GRADUATES AND FRIENDS WILL ... - Colorado State University (press release)
- Outstanding Colorado State University graduates and friends will be honored at the annual Distinguished Alumni Awards dinner on April 18.The Colorado State University Alumni Association's top award, the William E. Morgan Alumni Achievement Award, will be presented to Jean Bethke Elshtain, the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics, Divinity School, The University of Chicago. Professor Elshtain, regularly named as one of America's foremost public intellectuals, lectures widely in the United States and abroad on themes of democracy, ethical dilemmas, religion and politics and international relations. In 2002, she received the Goodnow Award, the highest award bestowed by the American Political Science Association for distinguished service to the profession.
David and Paula Edwards will receive the Charles A. Lory Public Service Award for demonstrated exceptional and sustained leadership for their significant volunteer efforts at Colorado State and in the Fort Collins community. For more than two decades they have invested their time, expertise and leadership by committing themselves to building a community in areas of philanthropy, healthcare and social services, arts and culture and education. The Edwardses are involved in the Colorado State University Campaign Leadership Council, United Way of Larimer County, UniverCity Connections and the College of Liberal Arts Great Conversations among many others.
