College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences

Award for Excellence

Selection of Recipient of the CLASS Award for Excellence

The CLASS Award for Excellence honors outstanding activity by faculty members early in their career. This award is open to full-time faculty members in the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences who are:

  1. Tenure-track or non-tenure.
  2. In their first ten years of college-level teaching.
  3. Outstanding in a wide range of activities, including teaching, scholarship or creative activity, service, and advisement.
  4. Supporting materials (such items as summaries of student ratings of instruction, peer evaluations, lists of publications and presentations, additional letters of support, representative course materials, and so on) may be submitted but must be limited to no more than ten additional pages.
  5. All nominations must be received in the CLASS Dean’s Office by July 1.
  6. A selection committee for the award will be chosen by the dean. The committee will submit its recommendations to the dean who will then make the final decision.
  7. The recipient of the CLASS Award for Excellence is announced at the first college faculty meeting of the academic year.
2007 Recipient Dr. Leah Daigle
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science
2006 Recipient Dr. Christopher L. Gibson
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science
2005 Recipient Dr. F. Erik Brooks
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science
2004 Recipient

Dr. Antonio Serna
Assistant Professor, Department of Foreign Languages

2003 Recipient Dr. Steven Engel
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science
2002 Recipient Dr. Chris Ludowise
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science
2001 Recipient Dr. Gary Hytrek
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
2000 Recipient

Dr. Carolyn Bryan
Assistant Professor, Department of Music

1999 Recipient

Dr. Patrick Novotny
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science

1998 Recipient Dr. Peggy Hargis
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
1997 Recipient

Dr. Janie Wilson
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology

1996 Recipient Dr. Jeanette Hecker
Assistant Professor, Department of Foreign Languages