17 tapped to join IU’s Faculty Colloquium on Excellence in Teaching
Seventeen faculty members, from IU campuses across the state, have been selected to receive the 2009 Faculty Colloquium on Excellence in Teaching award. They join a distinguished group of IU faculty members who have been chosen annually since FACET's inception in 1989, bringing FACET's faculty membership to a total of 516 award-winning faculty; 371 are current full-time faculty.
FACET awards are presented to IU faculty members who have demonstrated their exceptional commitment to teaching and learning through areas of self-evaluation, course preparation, research, instructional skills, and student impact. The new FACET members, along with the 2009 recipient of the P.A. Mack Award for Distinguished Service to Teaching, will be honored before a group of university administrators, trustees, FACET alumni and special guests at the 21st annual FACET Retreat, which will take place May 15-17 at Potawatomi Inn in Pokagon State Park, Angola.
FACET, an IU presidential initiative, is designed both to recognize and enhance outstanding teaching throughout the IU system and to promote continued development of teaching excellence among colleagues at IU and beyond. In recent years, FACET's efforts have expanded both at the campus level and statewide. FACET activities include the Leadership Institute, Associate Faculty and Lecturers Conference, and Future Faculty Teaching Fellows Conference in partnership with IU Graduate School.
FACET is a partner with the Mack Center for Inquiry on Teaching and Learning, and in cooperation with the center publishes the Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.
Other publications include the Quick Hits book series, Quick Hits (1994), More Quick Hits (1998), Quick Hits for New Faculty: Successful Strategies by Award-Winning Teachers (2004), and Quick Hits for Educating Citizens (2006), available from the FACET office; the Peer Review of Teaching DVD with instrumental CD-ROM, available from the FACET office; and the FACET Choir video: What's a Teacher For? The Nurturing No-Nonsense Classroom, available from Films for the Humanities and Sciences.
David Malik, director of FACET and vice chancellor of academic affairs at IU Northwest, encapsulates FACET's mission: "FACET faculty are among the most dedicated faculty focused on teaching and learning, and the big winners are the students in these faculty classes."
The 2009 FACET honorees are:
IPFW
• Linda Lolkus, professor of consumer and family sciences
IU EAST
• Sherry Rankin, clinical assistant professor of nursing
IUPUI
• Johnny Goldfinger, assistant professor of political science
• Deborah Stiffler, assistant professor of family health and nursing
• Sherry Stone Clifton, senior lecturer, Art and Design Foundation
• Corinne Ulbright, lecturer of biology
• Mark Urtel, assistant professor of physical education
• Ken Wendeln, clinical associate professor of management
• Wanda Worley, associate chair, assistant professor and director, technical communication
IU KOKOMO
• Nancy Greenwood, associate professor of sociology
IU NORTHWEST
• Karl Nelson, assistant professor of psychology
• Jerry Pierce, assistant professor of history
IU SOUTH BEND
• April Lidinsky, assistant professor of women's studies
• Isabel O'Connor, associate professor and chair, Department of History
• Henry Scott, associate professor of physics
IU SOUTHEAST
• Donna Bowles, associate professor of nursing
• Erich Stem, assistant professor of music theory and composition
