Professor Jochen Albrecht Receives 2018 Education Award from University Consortium for Geographic Information Science

According to a press release from the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS), "Jochen Albrecht, GISP, Professor of Computational and Theoretical Geography at Hunter College, City University of New York, will receive its 2018 Education Award.  Dr. Albrecht has been a faculty member at Hunter College since 2004, where he has contributed significantly to curriculum development in geographic information science. Albrecht emphasizes professional aspects of GIScience in his academic work and has facilitated articulation agreements between his institution and regional community colleges. A significant emphasis of his instructional practice is to introduce Hunter students to GIS employers through site visits, thus allowing students to see GIS at work in an organizational context."