Advocate Honored

Math Professor Georgianna Klein will be honored for her advocacy for women on campus. The Grand Valley Women's Commission will present Klein with the annual Maxine Swanson award in a ceremony on Tuesday, March 21, at 5 p.m. in Kirkhof.Klein, who has been on the faculty since 1983, has supported the needs of women in mathematics locally, nationally, and internationally as a member of the International Organization for Women in Mathematics Education. As chair of the GVSU Women's Commission, she has been an outspoken advocate for that group's point of view on such issues as the study of faculty and administrative salaries.Klein has also directed the commission's ongoing efforts in such areas as campus safety; upper-level employee searches; the establishment of a women's center; and assessing the university's policies and their effects on women.