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Contact: Bruce Conley
Associate Director of College Relations
Phone: (605) 274-5526
Fax: (605) 274-4903
www.augie.edu
May 22, 2006
SIOUX FALLS – Dr. Joe Dondelinger, professor of government/international affairs, is the recipient of the Frederick C. Kohlmeyer Distinguished Teaching Professorship at Augustana College.
Dr. Bruce Halverson, president of Augustana, presented the award during the college’s 146th Commencement Sunday at the Sioux Falls Arena.
Dr. Frederick C. Kohlmeyer, through a gift to Augustana upon his death in 1990, established this distinguished professorship to recognize and to reward outstanding teaching. The recipient receives a summer stipend of $5,000 for each of the two years of the award. Dr. Dondelinger is the seventh faculty member to receive the Kohlmeyer Distinguished Teaching Professorship.
Dr. Dondelinger, who has been teaching at Augustana since 1984, received the Burlington Northern Foundation award for excellence in teaching in 1991. A native of Luxembourg, he has served as a member of the Grand Duchy’s United Nations delegation in New York. He received his BA in political science from Miami University (Ohio), and his MA and Ph.D. in international relations from the Pennsylvania State University.
For the last 21 years, he has been instructing top level government personnel at the Federal Executive Institute (FEI), the US government’s Senior Executive Training Institute in Charlottesville, Va.