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Gerontology professor earns national faculty award

Phyllis Greenberg, gerontology professor
Phyllis Greenberg, gerontology professor.

Phyllis Greenberg, a professor of gerontology, has earned the Distinguished Faculty Award from the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education (AGHE).

The award recognizes persons whose teaching stands out as exemplary, innovative, of impact, or any combination of the three.

Greenberg will deliver a highlighted lecture at the AGHE annual meeting in March 1-4 in Atlanta, Georgia.

Full-time faculty members at an AGHE-affiliated institution with a minimum of five years of teaching experience are eligible to be nominated for this award.

Greenberg coordinates the master’s degree and graduate certificate degrees offered by the Gerontology program.

She holds a doctorate from Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia. Her master of public administration degree is from Seattle University.

Past honorees include Elizabeth Zelinski (2016) of the University of Southern California and Rona Karasik (2010), coordinator of St. Cloud State’s Gerontology Program. The award dates back to 2007.

AGHE is membership organization of colleges and universities that offers education, training and research programs in the field of aging. It has more than 160 institutional members in the United States, Canada and abroad.

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