Kelley Indianapolis Faculty Members to Receive Trustee Teaching Award

The Trustees of Indiana University have named two faculty members at the Kelley School of Business Indianapolis as recipients of the Trustee Teaching Award.

W. Todd Roberson, a lecturer in finance, and Richard Rogers, an associate professor of accounting, recently received notification of the award. Both have a long history with Kelley Indianapolis, part of the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) campus. Roberson promotes the school by heading up the undergraduate recruitment efforts.

“While I’ve won departmental awards before, this is the first time I’ll have the honor of being recognized by my peers across IUPUI,” Roberson said. “I feel very fortunate to have the support of my colleagues and students in the work that I do, and I believe that is the key contributor to any success that I’ve enjoyed at the Kelley School at IUPUI.”

“I am completing my 28th year the Kelley School, and this is probably the nicest honor I have received in my career. It is always best to be recognized for what you love to do,” Rogers said of the award.

The Trustees Teaching Award, formerly the Teaching Excellence Recognition Award, is awarded annually to tenured and tenure-track faculty, clinical faculty and full-time lecturers. Winners receive a cash stipend and will be recognized at the Chancellor’s Honors Convocation on April 17, 2009, at the University Place Conference Center, 900 W. Michigan St., Indianapolis.

The award is designed to honor individuals who have a positive impact on learning through the direct teaching of students, especially undergraduates. Recipients must have demonstrated a sustained level of teaching excellence in the form of documented student learning and must have completed at least three years of service at their individual campus.

Roberson is a past winner of the Otteson Award for Teaching Excellence. Rogers has won numerous undergraduate and graduate student awards from the Kelley School of Business and is the 2007 recipient of GM TEP Outstanding Distance Learning Faculty Award.

For additional information and high resolution photographs, please go to  http://www.kelley.iupui.edu/faculty/FacultyProfile.cfm?netid=wtrobers for Roberson and  http://kelley.iupui.edu/faculty/facultyProfile.cfm?netid=rrogers for Rogers.

About the Kelley School of Business Indianapolis
The IU Kelley School of Business has been a leader in American business education for more than 80 years. With an enrollment of more than 4,800 undergraduate and nearly 2,000 graduate students, it is among the premier business schools in the country. Kelley’s Indianapolis campus, based at IUPUI, is home to the school’s Evening MBA, Master of Science in Accounting, and Master of Science in Taxation programs and a full-time undergraduate program.