Seven IUPUI Faculty Tapped to Join Faculty Colloquium on Excellence in Teaching

Seven Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis faculty members are among the 17 recipients of the 2009 Faculty Colloquium on Excellence in Teaching award.

FACET awards are presented to faculty members from Indiana University campuses across the state who have demonstrated their exceptional commitment to teaching and learning through areas of self-evaluation, course preparation, research, instructional skills, and student impact.

The 2009 IUPUI FACET honorees are:

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; and

Wanda Worley, associate chair, assistant professor and director, technical communication

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 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, 2009, at Potawatomi Inn in Pokagon State Park, Angola, Ind.

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.

This year’s FACET recipients 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.

- from IU Home Pages, April 10, 2009 edition