Flagler College announces Kahler Awards for Riggs, Young

ST. AUGUSTINE, FL (01/22/2014)(readMedia)-- Flagler College has announced that it has awarded two 2014 Kahler Awards for Teaching of the Liberal Arts.

A $5,000 award will be granted to associate professor of history Wayne Riggs for his project "A Wholesome Discipline: British Youth in the Established Churches during the Great War." The award will be utilized to support research, writing and dissemination of the results of his project.

A $3,500 award will be given to assistant professor of history John D. Young to support the completion of his book, "Neighbors, Partners, Enemies: Jews and the Monasteries of Germany in the High Middle Ages."

The Kahler fund allows full-time faculty to pursue advanced academic pursuits.

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Flagler College is an independent, four-year, comprehensive baccalaureate college located in St. Augustine, Fla. The college offers 29 majors, 34 minors and two pre-professional programs, the largest majors being business, education and communication. Small by intent, Flagler College has an enrollment of about 2,500 students, as well as a satellite campus at Tallahassee Community College in Tallahassee, Fla. U.S. News & World Report and The Princeton Review regularly feature Flagler as a college that offers quality education at a relatively low cost. A Flagler education is less than half the cost of similar private colleges, and competitive with many state universities. A relatively young institution (founded in 1968), Flagler College is also noted for its historic beauty. The centerpiece of the campus is the former Hotel Ponce de Leon, a grand resort built in 1888 by Henry M. Flagler, industrialist, railroad pioneer and co-founder of Standard Oil. The Ponce has been designated as a National Historic Landmark. For more on Flagler College, visit www.flagler.edu.