By Sunny Tunget
Apache staff
Do you have a teacher or counselor that you would like to see win an award for being excellent?
You can nominate that person for a Faculty Excellence Award.
The Faculty Excellence Award Committee is asking students and staff to nominate the teacher or counselor that is the kind of person who challenges students to pursue their goals, prepares them to make life choices, improve their skills and/or be successful in academic endeavors, and motivates them to be active and concerned citizens of the community they live in.
Nominations are being accepted now through Jan. 10, 2002. Forms are available throughout campus and on the college web site at www.ivcc.edu/ faculty_and_staff/ faculty_excellence_award/.
Once the nominations are in, the steering committee for the Center for Excellence in Teaching, Learning and Assessment (CETLA) will review the nominations to ensure that the candidates meet the requirements. Human Resources will then prepare a ballot. Full time faculty and counselors will vote, determining the winner.
Pam Mammano, nursing instructor, received the first Faculty Excellence Award last year when the award was given as a pilot project. Since that time, members of the committee modified the criteria for the nominations and decided to increase student input in the process.
“The students have the best knowledge of how the faculty members teach,” said Mike Phillips, CETLA director.
The winner will receive $500 and will be honored at the National Institute for State and Organizational Development conference at the University of Texas in Austin. They will also be eligible for state and national awards.
Dr. Harriet Custer, vice president of academic affairs said, “We have many, many fine faculty members, and this is one way to recognize [at least] one of them each year.”
The award will be presented to the winner at the Annual Staff Recognition Event on May 3, 2002, but may be announced earlier.