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Director of Teaching Excellence and Support Stephanie Richter’s responsibilities include providing leadership on professional development and instructional support for faculty, instructors, teaching staff and teaching assistants. Under her leadership, the Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning (CITL) offered more that 130 trainings and 2,000 consultations to faculty, staff and teaching assistants during the last academic...
The Rising Huskie Award recognizes up to two staff members per year who, while new to NIU, have demonstrated excellence, innovation and performance that have had a significant impact at NIU in a short period of time. Criteria: Be a regular staff member at least 51% time with less than five years of service at...
The Staff Award for Student Impact recognizes up to two staff members who have gone above and beyond their normal job responsibilities to positively impact the quality of life and/or student experience for students at NIU. This includes staff from all divisions and all job types who are providing excellence and impacting students in a...
The Staff Award for Campus Impact recognizes up to two staff members per year who have demonstrated excellence in areas that help with beautification, maintenance and services to the campus community, such as excellence in maintaining the grounds, building maintenance, infrastructure support, etc. These staff members are essential to ensuring campus operations and providing the...
The Staff Team Award for Creativity and Innovation recognizes one group/team per year for excellence in creativity and innovation demonstrated by proposing and/or implementing a new or improved process, methods, systems or services, while encouraging reasonable/calculated risk-taking among their colleagues and/or teams. These efforts should show that they will or have resulted in great efficiency,...
The Staff Mentorship Award recognizes up to two staff members per year who serve as role models by inspiring colleagues and/or promoting professional development. These staff members, informally or formally, provide mentorship by being available to colleagues for support and sharing tips/resources for navigating higher education field/job functions. They’re known as go-to resources on campus....
The Staff Inclusive Excellence Award recognizes up to two staff members per year who exhibit an outstanding commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion and demonstrate exemplary contributions to developing a culturally diverse and welcoming university community. Criteria: Be a regular staff member at least 51% time or a full-time temporary staff member Demonstrate cultural competence...
Gladys Crespo When Gladys Crespo graduated from high school in her native Puerto Rico, she planned to become an engineer. That was her initial path in college as well, but it didn’t last. “I ended up teaching other students what they needed to do, and that was something that really became my passion,” Crespo says,...
Bill Pitney Bill Pitney knows exactly why he’s moving back to Graham Hall. “The college’s mission really resonates with me,” says Pitney, professor of Athletic Training in the Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education. “Our mission is grounded in high-quality teaching, research and service that prepares our students for personal and professional success, equipping them...
Extraordinary. Passionate. Determined. Caring. Students in Scott Sibley’s Human Development and Family Sciences (HDFS) courses describe him as having all those attributes – and more. “I had never met a professor so passionate about his field and caring about his students,” said Breanna Terry, a senior majoring in Human Development and Family Sciences. “He is...
A perceived barrier in online courses is that for all the evolving technology that brings students and professors together, there can be difficulty in having meaningful, engaging conversations in a virtual setting. Students and colleagues of Kate Cady, professor in the communications department at NIU, believe that barrier does not exist in her courses. Carolyn...
Lynn Dykstra makes connections with her students. For the Excellence in Online Teaching Award winner, it’s all about building relationships and engaging with Huskies beyond a virtual environment. “It’s about the students,” said Dykstra, an instructor at NIU School of Nursing. “I try to connect with each student and there are ways to successfully do...
