Donna Alvermann, a Distinguished Research Professor in the department of language and literacy education, has been named a 2010 Southern Regional Education Board Mentor of the Year for the Compact for Faculty Diversity Institute on Teaching and Mentoring.
Alvermann was among only four faculty members in the country receiving this award from the Compact for Faculty Diversity, a partnership of regional, federal and foundation programs that focuses on minority graduate education and faculty diversity.
In addition to the SREB, the compact includes the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Office of Federal TRIO Programs, U.S. Department of Education.