Through workshops, faculty presentation, and consultation, the Center serves as a repository for teaching related information and gives students access to faculty who are well trained to be excellent in and out of the classroom.
Founded in 2011, the Center continues to build and develop programs focused on teaching and teaching-related activities.
Deb Patterson deb.patterson@wne.edu
Tamara Shattuck tamara.shattuck@wne.edu
The Teaching Excellence Award is presented to a member of the full-time faculty in the Colleges of Arts and Sciences, Business, or Engineering who best exemplifies excellence in teaching. The nominee must have made a distinct difference in the teaching climate of the University in one or more of the following ways:
Each year there is a Teaching Excellence Award committee consisting of three students, three alumni, and three faculty members (previous award recipients). The faculty members of the committee review nominations that are collected from the campus community and identify a selection of finalists. Then the campus is called upon to provide statements of support for the finalists. Finally, the full committee reviews campus input and materials submitted by each finalist to select the annual award recipient. The award is presented at Commencement.
2022 - Michael Rust, Professor of Biomedical Engineering
2021 - Hillary Bucs, Professor of Theatre
2020 - Jennifer Beineke, Professor of Mathematics
2019 - Meri Clark, History
2018 - John Burke, Electrical Engineering
2017 - Steven Northrup, Electrical & Computer Engineering
2016 - Robert T.T. Gettens, Biomedical Engineering
2015 - Anne Poirot, Chemistry
2014 - Peter Fairman, Political Science
2013 - Jessica Carlson Outhouse, Psychology
2012 - Jonathan Beagle, History
2011 - Eric Haffner, Industrial Engineering
2010 - Harvey Shrage, Business
2009 - Chris Hakala, Psychology
2009 - Curt Hamakawa L'83, Sport Management
2008 - Sheralee Tershner, Neuroscience
2007 - Sharianne Walker, Sport Management
2006 - John S. Baick, History
2005 - Thomas J. Vogel, Business
2004 - Stephen C. Crist, Electrical Engineering
2003 - Lisa M. Hansen, Mathematics
2002 - John Coulter, Accounting
2001 - Martha Garabedian, Spanish
2000 - Alfred T. Ingham, Criminal Justice
1999 - Theodore South, History
1998 - Richard R. Veronesi '61, Mechanical Engineering
1997 - Marilyn K. Pelosi, Business
1996 - Richard S. Pelosi, Mathematics
1995 - Ann Kizanis, Mathematics
1995 - Peter W. Hess, Management
1994 - James V. Masi, Bioengineering
1993 - Dennis J. Kolodziejski, Psychology
1992 - Henry Bazan, Business Management
1991 - Dennis M. Luciano, Mathematics
This important seminar featured expert speakers Cheryl Sharp, Jody Walker-Smith, and Spencer Hill, who are all attorneys with the Connecticut Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities (CHRO). They shared their insights on issues of cultural humility and implicit bias, as well as offer strategies for addressing and combating discrimination in our communities.
This seminar focused on concepts of anti-racism, diversity, inclusion, sensitivity, and unconscious bias in today’s modern workplace/university. Dr. Neenah Estrella-Luna is a researcher, educator, advocate, and consultant focusing on issues related to social justice, social relations, and democratic governance.
Donald Yacovone, lifetime Associate at Harvard University's Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, has written widely on abolitionism, gender, the African American role in the Civil War, white supremacy, and American cultural history. He published Teaching White Supremacy: America's Democratic Ordeal and the Forging of Our National Identity, his ninth book, in the fall of 2022.