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Laurence Alexander named national ‘Teacher of Year’

Dr. Laurence B. Alexander, MA 1983, associate professor of journalism, has been named one of three 2002 Freedom Forum Journalism Teachers of the Year. He received a $10,000 prize.

Alexander, who specializes in media law, was chair of the Department of Journalism from 1994-98.

He currently serves as the UF Distinguished Alumni Professor.

He was twice named Teacher of the Year in the College (1993, 2000) and twice received the Faculty Research Award (1993, 2001). He was honored with the Faculty Service Award in 1999.

He is chair of the board of Campus Communications Inc., publisher of The Independent Florida Alligator (student newspaper).

He was chair of the Standing Committee on Professional Freedom and Responsibility for the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. AEJMC honored him in 1994 with the Baskett Mosse Award as an outstanding mid-career faculty member.

He has served on the organization’s national panel on teaching—the Task Force on Teaching and Learning in the New Millennium. In 1989 he received a Poynter Teaching Fellowship in Ethics—in recognition of outstanding teaching in journalism.

He is the author of more than 50 articles, papers and research presentations.

Alexander and his wife, Veronica, director of human resources for the UF Foundation, have three sons—Brandon, David and Tyler.