Sharan Merriam - Honors and Awards (since 1992)

Honors and Awards (since 1992)

Visiting Scholar, Department of Lifelong Education, Soongsil University, Seoul, South Korea (March to June, 2006)

Elected to the Board of Directors, Capella University, Minneapolis, Minn(3-year term of service) 2004

Inducted into the International Adult and Continuing Education Hall of Fame. 2003

Recipient of the Career Achievement Award from the Commission of Professors of Adult Education (awarded once every three years). 2002

Recipient of the Houle World Award for Outstanding Literature in Adult Education for the book, Learning in Adulthood, at AAACE. 2000

Selected for the Inaugural Class of The University of Georgia Teaching Academy. 2000

Fulbright Lectureship and Research Award to University Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Malaysia (June to December, 1998)1998

Recipient of the Houle World Award for Outstanding Literature in Adult Education for the book The Profession and Practice of Adult Education: An Introduction, at AAACE.1997

Selected as a Senior Teaching Fellow, Office of Instructional Development, University of Georgia, Athens, GA.1997

Selected as one of two delegates from the commission of Professors of Adult Education (CPAE) to participate in the Fifth International UNESCO Conference on Adult Education, Hamburg, Germany.1997 Summer Outreach Award to support collaboration with Universiti Pertanian Malaysia. 1997

Meritorious Service Award, American Association of Adult and Continuing Education, for service to the field as co-editor of Adult Education Quarterly.1993

Georgia Adult Education Association’s Literary Award for Lifelines: Patterns of Work, Love and Learning in Adulthood.1993

Selected as an Advisor/Mentor for the National Extension Leadership Development (NELD) program, University of Wisconsin–Madison and Kellogg Foundation.1992/1993

Selected to be a Research Fellow with the Project for the Study of Adult Learning (PSAL), a National University Continuing Education Association sponsored project.1991/1992