Faculty and Staff Awards

2020 University College Award Submissions

The University College 2020 Award Submissions are underway. It’s time for us to recognize the abundant excellence occurring in our college. Please see below for details on each faculty and staff award in addition to information on how to submit nominations.

Click here to view awards and information on how to submit.

UC Fellowship Program for Inclusive Engagement

To enhance our efforts toward understanding and promoting inclusiveness, University College has created a biennial Fellowship Program providing incentives and opportunities for University College’s colleagues to develop and deliver specific projects, initiatives, workshops, book clubs, lunch and learns or research-based scholarship aimed to raise awareness, foster engagement, and/or encourage discussion regarding the college’s diversity priority areas. This opportunity is open to all UC’s full-time faculty and staff. To apply or view more information, click here.

2019 UC Award Winners

    • Award
      Name
       
    • Distinguished Faculty Award
      Deborah Smith
      Deborah Smith
    • Faculty Award for Excellence in Scholarship & Creative Activity
      Ginny Boss
      Ginny Boss
    • Faculty Award for Excellence in Service
      Kate Schaab
      Kate Schaab
    • Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching
      Nyasha Guramatunhucooper
      Nyasha
    • Staff Award for Innovation and Impact
      Jocelyn Lopez Escamilla
      Joceyln Lopez
    • Staff Award for Dedication and Commitment
      Wanda Sexton
      Wanda Sexton
    • Staff Award for Leadership
      Donald Coleman
      Donald Coleman
    • Outstanding Part-Time Teaching Award
      John Gaddy
       
    • Above the Call Student Assistant Award
      Tralen Hardnett
       

     

Past UC Award Winners

    • Award
      Name
       
    • Distinguished Faculty Award
      Nyasha GuramatunhuCooper
      Nyasha Guramatunhucooper
    • Staff Award for Customer Service
      Judy Barnes
      Judy Barnes
    • Staff Award for Innovation and Impact
      Marie Powell
      Marie Powell
    • Outstanding Part-Time Teaching Award
      Emily Hein-Warren
       
    • Award
      Name
       
    • Distinguished Faculty Award
      Hillary Steiner
      Hillary Steiner
    • Outstanding Part-Time Teaching Award
      Kecia Jones
       
    • Award
      Name
       
    • Faculty Development Award
      Linda Lyons
      Linda Lyons
    • Staff Development Award
      Paulette Black
      Paulette Black
    • Staff Development Award
      Antwuan Holloway
      Antwuan Holloway
    • Outstanding Part-Time Teaching Award
      Steve Miller
       
    • Award
      Name
       
    • Faculty Development Award
      Jennifer Purcell
      Jennifer Purcell
    • Staff Development Award
      Robert Jordan
      Robert Jordan
    • Staff Development Award
      Tyler Pede
      Tyler Pede
    • Outstanding Part-Time Teaching Award
      Larry A.D. Byrnes
       
    • Award
      Name
       
    • Faculty Development Award
      Stephanie Foote
      Stephanie Foote
    • Faculty Development Award
      Richard Mosholder
      Richard Mosholder
    • Faculty Development Award
      Heather Scott
      Heather Scott
    • Award
      Name
       
    • Faculty Development Award
      Hillary Steiner
      Hillary Steiner
    • Award
      Name
       
    • Faculty Development Award
      Stephanie Foote
      Stephanie Foote

 

UC Fellowship Program for Inclusive Engagement

To enhance our efforts toward understanding and promoting inclusiveness, University College has created a biennial Fellowship Program providing incentives and opportunities for UC colleagues to develop and deliver specific projects, initiatives, or research-based scholarship aimed to raise awareness, foster engagement, and/or encourage discussion regarding the college’s diversity priority areas. This opportunity is open to all University College full-time employees. To apply or view more information, click here.

  • Benjamin Brooks

    Dr. Benjamin Brooks

    This qualitative study, ‘Teaching Controversy’, continues previous work on metacognition and subconscious bias and attitudes but turns the gaze toward the perspectives and preparation of the educator around a diverse and inclusive learning environment.

    The project has a multi-faceted agenda of attempting to articulate what are the difficult and/or controversial subject matters taught in leadership studies.

    Specifically:

    • What, if any, relationship exists between these subjects and issues of social identity within and/or between educators and students,
    • The difficulties, if any, leadership educators experience in confronting their own, possibly subconscious, biases and attitudes when teaching difficult/controversial leadership-focused subject matter
    • To identify some best practices leadership educators use to confront their own potential biases and teach difficult/controversial subject matter in an inclusive manner. 

    The ultimate outcome is an improved scholastic experience for students, but this attention to the educator side of the equation adds an important new component to the current literature. 

     


 

Perspectives on Global Issues Workshop (from UC)

One teaching faculty from each degree-granting college will be selected to participate in an active-learning, globally-focused, inter-cultural, academic-practitioner workshop. The purpose of the workshop is to expand faculty understanding of, and engagement in, broad topical policy debates and discussions occurring in the world today, thereby providing them with an additional foundation for bringing these themes back to the campuses of KSU and extending the engagement to our students and surrounding communities.

    • Year
      Participant
    • 2019

      Linda Lyons

    • 2018

      Katherine Schaab

    • 2017

      Jennifer Purcell

      Deborah Smith

    • 2016

      Nyasha GuramatunhuCooper

      Shelbee NguyenVoges

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