The College of Education & Human Development is pleased to announce the recipients of its 2025 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 will be recognized at a celebration on March 27. For more information about the award recipients, click here.
The 2025 recipients are as follows:
Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award for Undergraduate Teaching
Justin Malone, clinical instructor, Department of Learning Sciences
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
Lauren Beasley, assistant professor, Department of Kinesiology and Health
This award recognizes a full-time faculty member in the college for outstanding achievement in the area of graduate teaching.
Outstanding Part-Time Instructor Teaching Award
Margo Williams, part-time instructor, Department of Middle and Secondary Education
This award recognizes a part-time instructor in the college who demonstrates excellence in teaching students.
CEHD Staff Community Builder Award
Claire Miller, public relations coordinator, Office of the Dean
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 Customer Focus Award
Sanquinette Vaughn, administrative specialist-administrative, Department of Learning Sciences
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.)
Outstanding Faculty Research Award
Tamika La Salle-Finley, 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 scholarship.
Outstanding Faculty Research Mentoring Award
Min Kyu Kim, associate professor, Department of Learning Sciences
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 Mentoring Award
Gary Bingham, Hettie Floyd Lee Professor of Young Learners in Urban Settings, Department of Early Childhood and Elementary Education
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.
Outstanding Faculty Service to the Community Award
Dionne Cowan, executive director, Principals Center
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 Service to the Profession Award
Jonathan Cohen, associate professor, Department of Learning Sciences
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.
CEHD Staff Innovation Award
Zaki Hyder, administrative specialist, Department of Early Childhood and Elementary Education
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 Mentoring Award
Angela Turk, director of communications, Office of the Dean
This award honors a staff member who exemplifies the college’s commitment to fostering professional growth and success through mentorship.
Innovation in International Education Faculty Award
Chantee Earl, clinical associate professor, Department of Middle and Secondary Education
This award recognizes a full-time faculty member in the college for their outstanding achievement in international education.
CEHD Interdisciplinary Team Award
Snap Inc. Center for Computer & Teacher Education
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 Rising S.T.A.R. (Early Career) Staff Award
Jeriann Jones, academic advisor II, Office of Academic Assistance
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.
Photo caption: First row, left to right: Justin Malone, Lauren Beasley, Margo Williams, Claire Miller and Sanquinette Vaughn. Second row, left to right: Tamika La Salle-Finley, Min Kyu Kim, Gary Bingham, Dionne Cowan and Jonathan Cohen. Third row, left to right: Nooshin Haddadian, Ben Shapiro, Yin-Chan (Janet) Liao, Lauren Marguliex, Brendan Calandra, Marya Rahimi and Erin Anderson. Fourth row: Zaki Hyder, Angela Turk, Chantee Earl and Jeriann Jones.