Photo caption: Back row (left to right): Feng Yang, David Houchins, Katie Palmeri, Ashley Stewart, Stephen Rosner and Damien Lawrence. Front row (left to right): Omer Ari, Erin Mason, Rebecca Ellis, Paul Alberto, Joyce King, Susan Ogletree and DaShaunda Patterson. Not pictured: Krystal Jones-Smalley, Ruth Ebenezer-Cook and Renee' Schwartz.
The College of Education & Human Development is pleased to announce the recipients of its 2024 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 five areas: Customer service, innovation, community building, mentoring and early career achievement.
Awardees were recognized at a luncheon on March 21. For more information about the award recipients, click here.
The 2024 recipients are as follows:
Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award for Undergraduate Teaching
Omer Ari, clinical associate professor, Department of Middle and Secondary Education
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
Erin Mason, 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.
Outstanding Faculty Research Award
David Houchins, professor, Department of Learning Sciences
This award recognizes a full-time faculty member in the college for outstanding achievement in the area of scholarship.
Outstanding Faculty Research Mentoring Award
Feng Yang, associate professor, Department of Kinesiology and Health
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.
CEHD Interdisciplinary Team Award
Center for Evaluation and Research Services
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.
CEHD Customer Focus Award
Katie Palmeri, business manager II, Department of Counseling and Psychological Services
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
Stephen Rosner, college financial officer, Offices of the Dean
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.
CEHD Staff Community Builder Award
Krystal Jones-Smalley, business manager, Alonzo A. Crim Center for Urban Educational Excellence
This award recognizes a staff member who demonstrates a record of building and fostering collaborations within the college and the university community to bring about a positive transformational change.
CEHD Staff Mentoring Award
Ruth Ebenezer-Cook, business manager III, Department of Learning Sciences
This award recognizes a staff member who exemplifies the college’s commitment to improviding mentoring in the conduct of administrative support to CEHD staff. The mentor is a role model and resource for guidance toward successful outcomes for the college and the mentee’s professional growth.
CEHD Rising S.T.A.R. (Early Career) Staff Award
Damien Lawrence, administrative specialist – administrative, Department of Educational Policy Studies
This award recognizes a staff member who demonstrates a record of excellence, impact and professional service in the CEHD within 2-5 years of working in the college. The awardee will demonstrate a clear record indicating a strong potential for continuing to make positive contributions to the college.
Amy R. Lederberg Award for Outstanding Research in Educational Psychology
Ashley Stewart, assistant professor, Department of Learning Sciences
Established by Dr. Carol Springer Sargent to honor her dissertation chair, Dr. Amy R. Lederberg, this award is given to a new faculty member to support the development of their research agenda and recognize research-related accomplishments.
Innovation in International Education Faculty Award
Joyce E. King, Benjamin E. Mays Endowed Chair for Urban Teaching, Learning and Leadership, Department of Educational Policy Studies
This award recognizes a full-time faculty member in the college for their outstanding achievement in international education.
Outstanding Faculty Service to the Profession Award
Renee’ Schwartz, professor, Department of Middle and Secondary 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.
Outstanding Faculty Service to the Community Award
Rebecca Ellis, professor, Department of Kinesiology and Health
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 Georgia State University.
Outstanding Faculty Mentoring Award
DaShaunda Patterson, associate dean for faculty development and equity, Offices of the Dean
This award recognizes a full-time faculty member who demonstrates an exceptional commitment to faculty mentoring through their work with clinical and/or tenure-track faculty in developing their career advancement efforts in the areas of teaching, service and/or research.