Each year AIEA presents the Charles Klasek Award at the Annual Conference. "Chuck" Klasek was a founding member of AIEA from Southern Illiniois University at Carbondale and served as its third president. In addition to being a real leader in the founding of AIEA, Chuck was an excellent example of an effective international education administrator. He took on many tasks within AIEA including, in 1992, the editing and publication of "Bridges to the Future: Strategies for Internationalizing Higher Education." When Chuck died, the Executive Committee felt that a fitting tribute to his outstanding service to AIEA and to the field of International Education Administration would be to present an annual award in his name. The criterion for the award is that the recipient should have given long-term and outstanding service to the field of International Education. Pictured (L-R): AIEA President-Elect, Jane Gatewood and 2025 Charles Klasek Award Recipient Hillary Landorf. |
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Award nomination deadline has passed.
Nominations for the 2026 AIEA Awards will launch later this year. |
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Charles Klasek (Posthumous) Southern Illinois University 1998
Ralph Smuckler Michigan State University |
1996
LaMarr Kopp Pennsylvania State University 1999
Joe W. Neal University of Texas at Austin |
1997
Harold Josephson University of North Carolina - Charlotte 2000
Burkart Holzner University of Pittsburgh |
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2001
Barbara B. Burn University of Massachusetts-Amherst 2004
Thomas H. Hoemeke University of North Texas |
2002
Jack Van de Water Oregon State University 2005
Barbara Turlington American Council on Education |
2003
Axel Markert Eberhard-Karls-Universitaet Tubingen |
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2006
Tony Adams Macquarie University - Sydney 2008
David Larsen Arcadia University |
2006
John K. Hudzik Michigan State University 2009
JoAnn McCarthy University of Pennsylvania |
2007
Stephen Dunnett SUNY Buffalo 2010
Madeleine Green American Council on Education |
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2011
Robert Slater National Security Education Program |
2012
Peggy Blumenthal Institute of International Education |
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