Dr. Chuck Taylor Honored with Faculty Award for Multicultural Education

(Dr. Chuck Taylor (r.) with President Scott Flanagan)

Madison, Wis. (May 12, 2015) – Dr. Charles “Chuck” Taylor was recently honored with the Edgewood College Faculty Award for Excellence in Multicultural Education.

This award recognizes outstanding contributions to students, faculty and to Edgewood College across multiple aspects of multicultural education.

Dr. Taylor’s work in multicultural awareness, inclusion and honoring of diversity in the workplace and the world was noted in the citation.

“Dr. Taylor’s efforts to provide a laboratory for engagement in an intersectional analysis of race, ethnicity, class and gender, represents a distinguished record of excellence in multicultural education at Edgewood College and in the greater Madison community,” said Dr. Dean Pribbenow, Vice President for Academic Affairs.

“He has developed innovative, academically rigorous coursework in critical studies of race, ethnicity and multiculturalism in the United States, which is now a required element in our doctoral program in Educational Leadership, while using culturally responsive pedagogies in all of the courses he teaches,” Pribbenow said.

Dr. Taylor holds degrees from Southeast Missouri State University, the University of Oregon and UW-Madison.

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