Faculty and Staff Awards

2019 Award Winners

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

   

Past Award Winners

University College Distinguished Faculty Award

This award is open to any full-time, permanent faculty member in University College.

• Previous Award Recipients
  • Year
    Recipient
     
  • 2018
    Nyasha GuramatunhuCooper
    
  • 2017
    Hillary Steiner
    

University College Staff Award for Customer Service

These awards are open to any full-time, permanent staff member in University College.

• Previous Award Recipients
  • Year
    Recipient
     
  • 2018
    Judy Barnes
    

   

University College Staff Award for Innovation and Impact

These awards are open to any full-time, permanent staff member in University College. 

• Previous Award Recipients
  • Year
    Recipient
     
  • 2018
    Marie Powell
    

   

KSU Outstanding Part-Time Faculty (from University College)

This award is open to any part-time teaching faculty with a minimum of two complete years of service at KSU.

• Previous Award Recipients
  • Year
    Recipient
  • 2019
    John Gaddy
  • 2018
    Emily Hein-Warren
  • 2017
    Kecia Jones
  • 2016
    Steve Miller
  • 2015
    Larry A.D. Byrnes

Previous University College Award Recipients

• University College Faculty Development Award
  • Year
    Recipient
     
  • 2016
    Linda Lyons
    
  • 2015
    Jennifer Purcell
    
  • 2014

    Stephanie Foote

     

     

    
    Richard Mosholder

     

    
    Heather Scott

    

    

    

  • 2013
    Hillary Steiner
    
  • 2012
    Stephanie Foote
    

• University College Staff Development Award
  • Year
    Recipient
     
  • 2016

    Paulette Black

     

    
    Antwuan Holloway

    

    

  • 2015

    Robert Jordan

     

    
    Tyler Pede

    

    

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.

• 2018-2020 Fellow
  

  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 University College)

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.

• Previous Participants
  • Year
    Participant
  • 2019

    Linda Lyons

  • 2018

    Katherine Schaab

  • 2017

    Jennifer Purcell

    Deborah Smith

  • 2016

    Nyasha GuramatunhuCooper

    Shelbee NguyenVoges