Faculty Celebration

Faculty Achievement Awards

Winners of the Full-Time Faculty Achievement Award:

• 2024 - Lilli Ann Linford-Foreman, Professor of Theatre Arts/Communication
• 2023 – Kathy Smith, Professor of Mathematics
• 2022 – Karl Baldessari, Associate Professor of Aviation
• 2021 – Sean Rule, Professor of Mathematics
• 2020 – Amy Harper, Professor Anthropology
• 2019 – Bill Hoppe, Professor of Fine Arts
• 2018 - Jenny Cruickshank, Assistant Professor of Health and Human Performance
• 2017 - Andria Woodell, Professor of Psychology
• 2016 - Beverlee Jackson, Professor of Health Information Technology
• 2015 - Amy Van Dusen Howell, Associate Professor of Education
• 2014 - Carol Higginbotham, Professor of Chemistry
• 2013 - Deborah Davies, Professor of Dental Assisting
• 2012 - Kathy McCabe, Associate Professor of Criminal Justice
• 2011 - Julie Hood, Associate Professor of Human Biology
• 2010 - Julie Downing, Professor of Health and Human Performance
• 2009 - Karen "Kake" Huck, Professor of Speech
• 2008 - Stacey Donohue, Professor of English
• 2007 - Robert Reynolds, Professor of Geology
• 2006 - Michael Gesme, Associate Professor of Music
• 2005 - Charlie Naffziger, Associate Professor of Mathematics
• 2004 - Rebecca Walker-Sands, Associate Professor of Psychology
• 2003 - Julie Keener, Professor of Mathematics
• 2002 - Gloria Ahern, Professor of Health Information Technology
• 2001 - Terry Krueger, Professor of English
• 2000 - Bruce Emerson, Associate Professor of Physics
• 1999 - Patricia O’Neill, Associate Professor of History
• 1998 - Mark Eberle, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences
• 1997 - Cora Agatucci, Associate Professor of English
• 1996 - Diana Glenn, Associate Professor of Office Administration
• 1995 - E. Robert Powell, Professor of Physical Science and Chemistry
• 1994 - Bruce McClelland, Professor of Chemistry
• 1993 - Darla Quesnell, Professor of Psychology
• 1992 - Ellen Howe, Associate Professor of Nursing
• 1991 - Michael Sequeira, Associate Professor of Mathematics
• 1990 - Raymond Hatton, Professor of Geography
• 1989 - Millie MacKenzie, Professor of Office Administration
• 1988 - C. Wayne Eshelman, Professor of Biological Sciences
• 1987 - Jack McCown Jr., Professor of Mathematics
• 1986 - Bruce Nolf, Professor of Geology

Winners of the Part-Time Faculty Achievement Award:

• 2024 - Abby Hall, Adjunct Faculty Ethnic Studies
• 2023 – Mike Rich, PT Faculty Geographic Information Systems
• 2022 – Ann-Marie Sargent, Adjunct Faculty Writing/Literature
• 2020 – Jacqueline Vance, PT Faculty Education
• 2019 - Jane Youngs, Adjunct Faculty Nursing
• 2018 - Katie Sheldon, Adjunct Faculty Science
• 2017 - David Engel, Adjunct Faculty Foreign Language
• 2016 - Rodney Cross, Adjunct Faculty Allied Health
• 2015 - Heather VanDiest-Kolb, Criminal Justice
• 2014 - James Stedman, Writing/Literature
• 2013 - Carl Cavallo, Automotive
• 2012 - Patty Hammer, Mathematics
• 2011 - Peter Meyer, Art
• 2010 - Carolyn Esky, Human Development

Faculty winners of the Louis B. "Bart" Queary Lifetime Achievement in Higher Education Award:

• 2023 – Jane Morrow, Professor of Nursing
• 2021 – Rebecca Walker-Sands, Professor of Psychology
• 2021 – Bruce Emerson, Professor of Physics
• 2021 – Stacey Donohue, Professor of English
• 2021 – Michele Decker, Professor of Nursing
• 2018 - Doug Nelson, Professor of Mathematics
• 2018 - Ken Mays, Professor of Automotive

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