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Linda F. Cornelious
A veteran Mississippi State University faculty member is among 14 women receiving a one-time honor from an international education association.
Linda F. Cornelious, professor of instructional systems and workforce development since 1990, is being recognized with a Bessie Gabbard Award Celebrating the Leadership of Women. Presented recently by Phi Delta Kappa honor society, it honors practicing educators excelling in professional, civic and community service activities.
Based in Bloomington, Ind., PDK represents 95,000 professional and pre-professional educators in the United States, Canada and other countries. The Gabbard award is a memorial to its first female member, who died earlier this year at age 95.
At Mississippi State, Cornelious has earned a number of honors, including College of Education awards for graduate teaching and for leadership and service. She also has been recognized by PDK as its outstanding educator of the year at MSU, for outstanding teaching and service, and as a selection for a Kappa Award recognizing excellence in leadership and service to Mississippi education.
During the 1999-2000 academic year, she served as the Boeing Co. William Allen Endowed Chair and Distinguished Professor of Education at Seattle University.
Cornelious currently is a member of the board of directors for the Mid-South Educational Research Association and an area coordinator for PDK in North Mississippi.
A Minden, La., native, she holds bachelor's and master's degrees from Southern University in Baton Rouge, and education specialist and doctoral degrees from Florida State University. Before coming to MSU, she worked at Florida State as assistant director of the Florida Consortium on Minority Teacher Education.