Professor Alex Saragoza will be the recipient of the 2017 Osher Lifelong Learning Institute’s Excellence in Teaching and Learning Award

This award is given annually to a UC Berkeley faculty member who teaches at OLLI and who has demonstrated an ongoing commitment to engaged learning, both in the classroom and in the world outside the university. As an emeritus professor of Chicano/Latino Studies, Alex Saragoza has exemplified this commitment in his teaching, organization of international travel programs, research on cultural tourism, and involvement in film projects on Mexican history.