2025 Alderson Lecture & Awards Ceremony
Join the Department of Kinesiology and Health Education (KHE) for its 43rd Annual Alderson Lecture and Awards Ceremony. Honoring the late Dr. C.J. (Shorty) and Dr. Mary Buice Alderson, this annual celebration welcomes prominent leaders in the field of Kinesiology and Health Education to lead the conversation around current industry trends and challenges.
This year’s keynote presenter, Richard J. Reddick, Ed.D., will headline the event with his talk “Restorative Resistance in the Beloved Community.” The awards ceremony recognizing outstanding students and exceptional faculty for their significant contributions will follow.
Light refreshments will be provided and no registration is required. Doors open at 5:30 p.m.
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Senior Vice Provost and Dean of the Undergraduate College
Reddick is the inaugural Senior Vice Provost and Dean of the Undergraduate College at UT Austin. Reddick also serves as the faculty co-chair of the Institute for Educational Management and Bravely Confronting Racism in Higher Education at Harvard Graduate School of Education and formerly served on UNESCO’s Countering Racism in Textbooks Committee. He teaches courses in the Undergraduate College, Plan II, Black Studies and Educational Leadership, and conducts research on faculty of color at historically white universities, mentoring, cultural taxation, Black families in America and work-family balance. Reddick has authored and co-edited four scholarly volumes, with his work featured in NPR, BBC, CNN, Fortune, Nature and the Chronicle of Higher Education.
A first-generation collegian, Reddick earned degrees in Plan II Honors at UT Austin and a master’s and doctorate from Harvard University. Reddick is also the author of Restorative Resistance in Higher Education: Leading in an Era of Racial Awakening and Reckoning (Harvard Education Press, 2023). A dad of two, husband, son and brother, Reddick also co-founded the first public Montessori school in East Austin and co-hosts the NPR podcast, Black Austin Matters. He has appeared on several game shows, including Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy! and Who Wants to be a Millionaire?
