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DSU Professor University Business Teacher of the Year

Lynette Molstad Gorder was awarded the University Business Teacher of the Year Award at the annual Mountain-Plains Business Education Association Conference, which was held in Overland Park, Kansas, June 13-16, 2007.  Molstad Gorder is an Associate Professor of Business and Information Systems at Dakota State University in Madison, SD.   She has been at Dakota State since 1981. 

This award is presented annually to a senior college or university business teacher who has made significant contributions to the field of business education through teaching, service, and research.   Nominations are made by a National Business Education Association Member or by the executive boards of affiliated local, state, or regional associations.  A panel of judges evaluates each nomination packet to determine the winner. 

The Mountain-Plains Business Education Association (M-PBEA) represents business educators from a nine-state region which includes Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming.  It also represents business educators in the Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba.  M-PBEA is one of the five regional associations of the National Business Education Association.

As a regional winner, Molstad Gorder qualifies to compete for a national-level award which will be presented at e 2008 National Business Education Association Convention to be held in San Antonio, TX in April.