The Cyril O. Houle Scholars in Adult and Continuing Education Program announced its third group of recipients in April. The program, made possible by a W.K. Kellogg Foundation grant to the Department of Adult Education of The University of Georgia, supports emerging scholars expected to make a significant contribution to the field of adult and continuing education. Groups of nine scholars were also selected in 1998 and in 1999.

The 2000 Houle Scholars represent three regions of the world‹Southern Africa, Latin America, and the United States of America. Five Americans, one South African, one Zimbabwean, and two Colombian scholars were selected, as follows:

• Guillermo Acosta Medina, Corporación Investigación Social Contemporánea, Colombia
• Mary Alfred, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, U.S.
• Gillian Attwood, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
• Julián González Mina, Universidad del Valle, Colombia
• Talmadge Guy, The University of Georgia, U.S.
• Catherine Hansman, Cleveland State University, U.S.
• Peter Malvicini, Cornell University, U.S.
• Barbara McDonald, USDA (U.S. Department of Agriculture) Forest Service, U.S.
• Mandivavarira Taruvinga, Zimbabwe Open University, Zimbabwe

Scholars participate in annual retreats and a global dialogue that utilizes Internet technology to conduct a continuous exchange. The third annual retreat, held March 10-16, 2000, in Athens and Atlanta, Georgia, was attended by faculty from the Department of Adult Education and 18 Houle Scholars from the second group (1999) and the just-selected third group (2000). The fourth annual retreat is being planned for Botswana in March 2001.

The program was set up in 1997 to award a total of 45 scholarships, nine each year over five years, beginning in 1998. Each year, five recipients are chosen from the U.S. and two each from Latin America and Southern Africa. Awards are $20,000 per year for the two-year scholarship period, up to $40,000.

The Houle Scholarships are administered through the Department of Adult Education of the School of Leadership and Lifelong Learning of UGA's College of Education. Faculty from the department are involved in the creation and development of the program, which includes designing and facilitating the annual retreats; serving as project liaisons to consult with the scholars on their research projects; and chairing selection committees in Latin America, Southern Africa, and the U.S. Several graduate assistants also work with the program.

Funding from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation for the Houle Scholarships totals $2.6 million. Individual applicants must have received their degrees (bachelor's degree minimum in Latin America and Southern Africa, master's degree minimum for U.S. applicants) in adult education or a closely related field, on or after January 1, 1994. They must be currently employed in a research-related position in adult education or a closely related field.

Cyril O. Houle
The scholarship program honors Cyril O. Houle, who was an internationally recognized leader in adult and continuing education. Houle, who died in May of 1998, was a faculty member of the University of Chicago from 1939-1978 and provided counsel to the Kellogg Foundation for some 60 years. His books include The Inquiring Mind, The Design of Education, Continuing Learning in the Professions, and Patterns of Learning.

For more information about the Houle Scholars Program or its application process, contact:

Bradley C. Courtenay, Department of Adult Education
The University of Georgia
423 River's Crossing
850 College Station Road
Athens, Georgia 30602-4811
U.S.A.; phone: 706-542-2214 or 800-816-3382
fax: 706-542-4024
e-mail: hsp@arches.uga.edu, or visit the program's Web site at www.coe.uga.edu/hsp (the site includes abstracts of Houle Scholar projects).

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