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AP® Chief Reader Wins National Geography Award

NCGE President Jan Smith congratulates AP Chief David Lanegran of Macalester College on winning the 2008 George J. Miller Award.

Chief Reader for AP® Human Geography David Lanegran has received the 2008 George J. Miller Award for Distinguished Service to Geographic Education, the highest award of the National Council for Geographic Education. This award is annually bestowed upon an individual who has made contributions of the highest quality and character to geographic education. The recipient must have shown evidence of sustained effort on behalf of geographic education. In addition, the award is based on the nature and extent of service to the NCGE.

Lanegran is widely recognized in his profession as a global leader. Currently serving at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minn., as chair of the Department of Geography and the John S. Holl Professor of Geography, Lanegran has been coordinator of the Minnesota Alliance for Geographic Education since 1987, chair of the Geographic Education National Implementation Project and a national councilor and treasurer of the Association of American Geographers.

In 2008, Lanegran became the Chief Reader for AP Human Geography, a course he helped to create. “David was a member of the steering committee that was formed to discuss the feasibility of geography as an AP subject. He was a member of the initial AP Human Geography Development Committee, serving as chair for a year, and he ran the first APHG teachers' workshop in Macalester in 1996, which ran for three weeks. Members of that ‘class’ then went back and ran workshops in their home states. It was incredibly effective. Many of the Question Leaders, Table Leaders and Readers … are the beneficiaries of this work,” said Barbara Hildebrant, a fellow geographer and a group director at Educational Testing Service in Princeton, N.J.

Mark Bockenhauer, an associate professor of geography at St. Norbert College in De Pere, Wisc., spoke of Lanegran’s distinguished work at the NCGE annual meeting last October. He said, “Dave was NCGE president in 1998, working to broaden the international connections of the council, in particular with Russian and South Korean geoeducators, and he has spearheaded or contributed to many of the most important geography education projects undertaken in the past quarter century.”

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