Linda Korbel
Dean of Humanities, Languages and the Arts
Oakton Community College
Des Plaines, IL
She is an inspired and inspiring voice for gloabl education; endeed, she has spent her whole career engaged in a variety of different ways in that work.
She has managed an astonishing workload as Chair of Modern Language Department and then as Dean of the Division of Humanities, Languages and the Arts at the college just outside Chicago where she works.
She has chaired the Global Studies Advisory Committee and annual Cultures' Week program at this college, and also coordinated the college's participation in the Illinois Consortium for International Studies and Programs.
Perhaps the most significant aspect of her leadership of the organization alluded to earlier was the partnership she initiated with Stanley Foundation. That partnership resulted in teh Airlie Conferences and the State Consortia for Global Education.
As a key shaping spirti of the conferences held at the Airlie Center, she also served as rapporteur, subsequently co-authoring the widely circulated and influential reports: Building the Global Community: The Next Step (1995) and Educating for the Global Community: A Framework for Community Colleges (1997). She also participated in the writing of New Expeditions: Charting the Future of Global Education in Community Colleges (1999).
The organization she managed was the American Council for International Intercultural Education.
The college she works are is Oakton Community College, Illinois.
The winner of the Dr. Werner Kubsch Award this year is Linda Korbel, Dean of Humanities, Languages and the Arts, Oakton Community College.