Kathryn Fuller , Former President of the World Wildlife Fund, to Deliver Commencement Address; Honorary Degree Recipients Announced
Kathryn Fuller, former President of the World Wildlife Fund, will speak at Muhlenberg College’s 162st Commencement on May 23, 2010 at 10 a.m. The ceremony will be held on the College’s historic quad. Fuller will also be awarded an honorary doctorate.Tuesday, April 13, 2010 00:23 PM
From 1989 to 2005, Kathryn S. Fuller served as president and chief executive officer of World Wildlife Fund, the U.S. arm of the largest organization working to save species and habitats worldwide. Trained as a lawyer and marine ecologist, Fuller joined WWF in 1983 after heading the Wildlife and Marine Resources Section of the U.S. Justice Department. Her field work included wildebeest behavioral studies in Tanzania's Ngorongoro Crater and coral reef research at the U.S. Virgin Island's West Indies Laboratory. She serves on the WWF board as President Emerita.
Fuller received a bachelor of arts degree from Brown University, a juris doctor degree from the University of Texas, and is the recipient of several honorary degrees and other awards. Fuller was a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars during the 2005-2006 academic year and is currently a member of a number of boards, including the Ford Foundation (where she is chair),the Summit Foundation, Resources for the Future, the National Museum of Natural History, and Alcoa, Inc.
Married with three children, Fuller lives in Washington, D.C.
Additionally, Muhlenberg College will award honorary degrees to Dr. Stephen D. Brookfield and Dr. Ronald F. Levant.
Since beginning his teaching career in 1970, Brookfield has worked in England, Canada, Australia, and the United States, teaching in a variety of college settings. He has written 12 books on adult learning, teaching, critical thinking, discussion methods and critical theory, four of which have won the Cyril O. Houle World Award for Literature in Adult Education. He also won the 1986 Imogene Okes Award for Outstanding Research in Adult Education. His work has been translated into German, Korean, Finnish and Chinese.
He has been given numerous awards for his work in adult education, was recently inducted into the Adult Education Hall of Fame. He currently serves on the editorial boards of educational journals in Britain, Canada and Australia, as well as in the United States.
After 10 years of teaching at Columbia University, he now holds the title of Distinguished University Professor at the University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota where he recently won the university's Diversity Leadership Teaching & Research Award and also the John Ireland Presidential Award for Outstanding Achievement as a Teacher/Scholar.
Levant has authored, co-authored, edited or co-edited 14 books and over 175 peer-reviewed refereed journal articles and book chapters in family and gender psychology and in advancing professional psychology. Levant was one of pioneers who developed the new psychology of men. He has developed theory and conducted research programs on fathering and masculinity ideology in multicultural perspective and developed a number of instruments designed to assess a variety of gender issues.
He is the recipient of 17 professional awards and is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, a Diplomate of the American Board of Professional Psychology in both Clinical and Family Psychology, and a Distinguished Practitioner of the National Academies of Practice.
Levant has been interviewed and profiled for hundreds of articles on the psychology of gender issues and family life, and has appeared a number of national television and radio shows, including "20/20," "The Oprah Winfrey Show" and "CBS News Nightline.”
