Young Takes Home National Teaching Award

The Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) this month named TSUAg Professor and Associate Dean of Academics and Land-Grant Programs Dr. De’Etra Young as a national recipient of the organization’s Excellence in College and University Teaching Award for Food and Agricultural Sciences. The ceremony for the award took place last month, in Seattle. Dr. Young was one of two educators the APLU named winners of the award, which celebrates university faculty for their quality of teaching, service to students, the teaching profession and scholarship of teaching and learning. In recognition of her scholarship, exemplary pedagogy and dedication to instruction Young took back to campus a stipend of $5,000 to be used for improving teaching at TSUAg.