King, PhD ’77, receives ACPA Lifetime Achievement Award

Pat King, PhD ’77, was recently honored with an American College Personnel Association (ACPA) Lifetime Achievement Award.

King, an alumni of the Department of Educational Psychology, has been at the University of Michigan since 2003, is now a professor of higher education in the School of Education’s (SOE’s) Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education.

According to an article by the University of Michigan, King’s teaching and research focus on the learning and development of college students and other adults in educational settings. She is interested in approaches to student learning that explore the interactions between student characteristics (such as their expectations, social identities, and developmental capacities) and features of their learning environments (such as the nature of the challenges and supports educators offer) in curricular, cocurricular, and personal contexts.

Congratulations to Dr. King, and thank you for representing the University of Minnesota and for all of your contributions to the field of educational psychology!