Brescia alum, president and founder of AIKCU business partner The Learning House, Inc. honored for commitment to excellence and leadership
April 9th, 2008
Dr. Denzil Edge, the president and founder of AIKCU business partner Learning House, Inc., is being honored by two AIKCU campuses for his contributions to the distance learning field.
The first honor comes from Edge’s alma mater, Brescia University. Brescia is a coeducational, private, Catholic university located in Owensboro, Kentucky. Edge attended the university as a member of the 1967 graduating class and received a Bachelor of Science in History and a minor in special education.
As part of the university’s esteemed alumni, Edge will be receiving the Distinguished Alumni Award on the evening of April 19. Presented by the Alumni Association, this award will be granted to Edge at the end of the Alumni Weekend festivities, which will conclude with the awards banquet.
Brescia established the Distinguished Alumni Award in 2000 as part of the university’s 50th anniversary. The award aims to honor valued alumni who have attained professional excellence while demonstrating a strong commitment to their communities, families and alma mater. The Alumni Association bases its selection upon the breadth and scope of a candidate’s life work and the magnitude of his or her impact nationally and internationally. Most importantly, award recipients are chosen due to their exemplary commitment to the “Brescia Difference: Respect for the Sacred; Devotion to Learning; Commitment to Growth in Virtue; Promotion of Servant Leadership.”
Edge is one of three recipients of the Distinguished Alumni Award. His fellow recipients include James E. Voyles, Ph.D., J.D. of the 1965 class and Tara Henderson Parker of the 1974 class.
Edge will also be recognized at this year’s Principle-Centered Leadership Program held at University of the Cumberlands. The Principle-Centered Leadership Program is the third annual program in the Lecture Series presented by the Forcht Group of Kentucky Center for Excellence in Leadership at the university. The center, developed in 2006, was designed to provide programs and activities that enhance the development of leadership, character and good citizenship.
Edge is one of four principle-centered leaders selected to be honored at the program. Honorees were chosen by their embodiment of the program’s elected ideals and involvement at the local, regional and national level.
Edge is an internationally known educator with extensive experience in distance education and distance learning technologies. He has been extremely active in the field of higher education in Kentucky, Florida, Alaska, Scotland, Germany and Australia as a teacher and academic contributor. At the age of 28, he was hired by the University of Louisville to develop teacher-training programs. In this position, he developed the Learning Improvement Center, which included the first built-in television system for use by teachers and students. Edge has taught more than 40 distance learning courses using a variety of distance learning technologies, and he has built more than 50 online campuses.
Edge is currently the president and founder of The Learning House, Inc., a comprehensive online education solutions partner that helps colleges and universities offer and manage their online degree programs.
Read Edge’s complete success story.
This article originally appeared in The Learning House, Inc. Newsletter.