Photo caption: Top row (left to right): Damien Lawrence, Yolanda Parker, Courtney Strosnider and Jonathan Orr. Second row (left to right): Chara Bohan, H. Robert Baker, Beth Cianfrone and Donnie Davis. Third row (left to right): Stacey French-Lee, Tonia Durden and Chenyi Zhang.
The College of Education & Human Development is pleased to announce the recipients of its 2023 Faculty and Staff Awards.
The annual faculty and staff awards recognize and celebrate individuals who have helped the college move lives forward. Faculty awards are given in three areas: teaching, service to the profession and community, and research and scholarship. Staff awards are given in two areas: customer service and innovation.
Awardees were recognized at a luncheon on March 23. For more information about the award recipients, click here.
The 2023 recipients are as follows:
CEHD Customer Focus Award
Damien Lawrence, administrative specialist – administrative, Department of Educational Policy Studies
This award recognizes a staff member in the college who demonstrated concern for meeting internal and external customer needs in a manner that provided satisfaction for the customer. (“Customers” can be co-workers, peers or managers, as well as external customers of a service, such as students, parents or community members.)
CEHD Staff Innovation Award
Yolanda Parker, administrative specialist – administrative, Department of Counseling and Psychological Services
This award recognizes a staff member in the college who generated novel and valuable ideas and used these to develop new or improved processes, methods, systems, products or services. The award recognizes creative ideas that improved any area of the college and made the CEHD a better place to work.
Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award for Undergraduate Teaching
Courtney Strosnider, clinical instructor, Department of Kinesiology and Health
This award recognizes a full-time faculty member in the college for outstanding achievement in the area of undergraduate teaching.
Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award for Graduate Teaching
Jonathan Orr, clinical associate professor, Department of Counseling and Psychological Services
This award recognizes a full-time faculty member in the college for outstanding achievement in the area of graduate teaching.
CEHD Interdisciplinary Team Award
Chara Bohan, professor, Department of Educational Policy Studies
Robert Baker, associate professor of history, College of Arts and Sciences
This award recognizes an interdisciplinary faculty team with outstanding achievements who have made a significant contribution to the university’s research, scholarship and/or teaching mission through successful interdisciplinary collaborations.
Outstanding Faculty Research Award
Beth Cianfrone, professor, Department of Kinesiology and Health
This award recognizes a full-time faculty member in the college for outstanding achievement in the area of scholarship.
Outstanding Faculty Research Mentoring Award
Donnie Davis, associate professor, Department of Counseling and Psychological Services
This award recognizes a full-time faculty member who fulfills in an exemplary way the college’s commitment to providing mentoring in the conduct of research to faculty colleagues and doctoral students.
Outstanding Faculty Service to the Community Award
Stacey French-Lee, clinical assistant professor, Department of Early Childhood and Elementary Education
This award recognizes a full-time faculty member who fulfills in an exemplary way the college’s commitment to service and has consistently demonstrated exemplary service to the community and/or campus.
Outstanding Faculty Service to the Profession Award
Tonia Durden, clinical professor, Department of Early Childhood and Elementary Education
This award recognizes a full-time faculty member who fulfills in an exemplary way the college’s commitment to service and has consistently demonstrated exemplary service to their profession at a national level.
Innovation in International Education Faculty Award
Chenyi Zhang, associate professor, Department of Early Childhood and Elementary Education
This award recognizes a full-time faculty member in the college for their outstanding achievement in international education.